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CUH Annual Awards 2024 - winners announced!
The winners of the Cambridge University Hospitals Annual Awards 2024 were announced at a special ceremony held on Thursday 21 November to celebrate and recognise around 200 staff members shortlisted from 1,900 nominations.
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Safety conscious Trust staff back THIS film
Staff at Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie maternity hospital are supporting an organisation dedicated to improving quality and safety in healthcare.
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Trust backs international cancer study aided by ‘super survivors’
Addenbrooke’s is to take a leading role in a study aimed at unlocking the secrets of why some cancer patients survive longer than others.
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Trust scientist scoops award for pioneering TB research
A medical researcher and honorary consultant at Addenbrooke’s Hospital today receives a top prize in Berlin for her pioneering research on tuberculosis.
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Researchers’ breakthrough in fight against testicular cancer
Researchers have made an important step forward in the fight against testicular cancer - one of the most common cancers in young men with rates rising globally.
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You Made a Difference - September 2024
An apprentice nurse who always helps others and a clinical scientist with a commitment to helping diagnose patients are our winners of the September You Made a Difference awards.
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Punctured lung affects almost one in a hundred hospitalised Covid-19 patients
As many as one in 100 patients admitted to hospital with Covid-19 develop a pneumothorax – a ‘punctured lung’ – according to a study led by Cambridge researchers.
Medicine for Members: Organ donation in 2020
Medicine for Members lecture on Organ Donation in 2020: Successes, hopes and challenges by Dr Riaz Kayani, consultant in paediatric intensive care and organ donation lead.
Steroid improves survival of critically ill Covid-19 patients – CUH patients involved in study
A new international study published today has shown that treating severely ill Covid-19 patients with the steroid hydrocortisone improves their chances of recovery.
Plea for organ donors to alert families
Last year the families of 57 patients who died at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge made the courageous decision to support their loved ones’ wishes to donate their organs.
Addenbrooke’s pilots new approach after results of study
Combining PCR and antibody tests at point of care dramatically increases COVID-19 detection in hospitalised patients
Hancock’s high-tech visit
Health Secretary Matt Hancock today visited Cambridge University Hospitals to see how cutting edge technology can reduce cancer waiting times.
Why marathon transplant is a milestone moment
This month marks a year since Stephen Cooper became the 100th patient to have a multi-visceral transplant at Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge - the only hospital in the UK to undertake such complicated operations on adults.
Clinics set up to help patients overcome the effects of Covid
Special clinics to help patients who were hospitalised with Covid-19 overcome the effects of the virus have been set up at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.
Drive-through blood tests being offered at Newmarket Road Park and Ride, Cambridge
Drive-through blood tests are shortly to be available at Newmarket Road Park and Ride in Cambridge to help reduce the number of patients coming onto the Addenbrooke’s site during Covid-19.
First UK hospital to offer advanced patient positioning and surface guided technology for radiotherapy patients
Our hospitals are the first in the UK to install a new technology to enable delivery of precision radiosurgery and radiotherapy to patients with cancer and other conditions.
Emergency department’s warning on numbers
A clinician at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, today issued an appeal for patients not to bring large groups of relatives or friends into the emergency department.
Ian Davenport exhibition coming to our hospitals
Paintings in Hospitals, the Jerwood Collection, and Cambridge University Hospitals present Colour in Motion, an exhibition featuring the works of Turner Prize-nominated artist Ian Davenport at our hospitals.
Surgeon’s pledge on Cape Town gun victims
A young trainee in academic and clinical neurosurgery who found himself in the thick of the Covid-19 outbreak in South Africa today vowed to return and help more patients with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) caused by gunshots.
Hospital team reunite Addenbrooke’s patient with dog after four months
Patient Ronald Jaffray has been able to hug his dog Misty for the first time in four months, thanks to a surprise reunion organised by the hospital team who care for him.
We are the first NHS trust in England to restart bowel screening
Addenbrooke’s Hospital has become the first in England to restart Public Health England’s bowel cancer screening programme, after it was put on hold for Covid-19.
You Made a Difference - June to July 2020
A diligent midwifery sister who uses her initiative to make her patients feel at ease; a digital editor whose knowledge is second to none; a clinical bioinformatician who is an excellent manager who always has time for colleagues; and a completely selfles
'Sponge on a string' test to transform oesophageal cancer diagnosis
A ‘sponge on a string’ pill test has been hailed a ‘game changer’ by cancer doctors as it transforms oesophageal cancer diagnosis, identifying ten times more people with Barrett’s oesophagus than the usual GP route**.
Volunteers are essential in Covid battle
A team of 25 St Johns Ambulance volunteers have clocked up an incredible 4,000 hours between them since March, and played a vital role in the Emergency Department and the Urgent Treatment Centre here at CUH.
Cancer patients could benefit from world class web tool
Research using a sophisticated web tool, which is being carried out with help from doctors and patients at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, could lead to cancer patients receiving personalised medicine.
Ely Day Surgery Unit reopens to patients
Ely Day Surgery Unit is to reopen next week in an important step towards reducing the number of patients waiting for surgical procedures, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) announced today (Thurs 23 July).