royal papworth hospital
Cambridge
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK’s leading heart and lung
hospital, treating around 50,000 patients each year. The Trust is currently
rated 'outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), from an inspection
carried out in 2019. It became the first hospital Trust in the country to
receive the top rating of 'outstanding' in each of the five main domains that
the CQC assesses. Founded as a tuberculosis colony in 1918, Royal Papworth
Hospital has established an international reputation for excellence in research
and innovation. Since carrying out the UK’s first successful heart transplant in
1979, the hospital now performs more heart, heart-lung and lung transplants each
year than any other UK centre. It also in 2015 became the first hospital in
Europe to perform a pioneering type of heart transplant - donation after
circulatory death (DCD) - and in 2022 performed its 100th DCD heart transplant,
making it the biggest and most successful DCD heart transplant centre in the
world. In addition to transplantation, Royal Papworth Hospital has the UK’s
largest Respiratory Support and Sleep Centre (RSSC) and is one of five UK
centres providing Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) to patients
experiencing severe respiratory failure. It is also the only centre in the UK
for a number of specialist services including Pulmonary Endarterectomy and
Balloon Pulmonary Angioplasty (BPA). Royal Papworth Hospital is a member of
Cambridge University Health Partners (CUHP), a partnership between one of the
world's leading universities and three NHS Foundation Trusts. CUHP delivers
world-class excellence in healthcare, research, clinical education and improves
the health of people across Cambridgeshire, the East of England and nationally.
In 2017, the hospital was granted Royal status by Her Majesty the Queen in
recognition of its commitment to excellence in cardiothoracic care. Royal
Papworth moved to a state-of-the-art building on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus
in May 2019, which was officially opened by Her Majesty the Queen in July 2019.
In October 2019, it became the first hospital Trust in the country to receive
the top rating of 'outstanding' in each of the five main domains that the CQC
assesses.