Papworth Hospital

Papworth Hospital
Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
The hospital's front entrance.
Geography
Location	Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Organisation
Care system	Public NHS
Hospital type	Specialist
Affiliated university	University of Cambridge Medical School
Services
Emergency department	No Accident & Emergency
Beds	240
Speciality	Cardiothoracic surgery including transplantation; cardiology; respiratory medicine
History
Founded	1917
Links
Website	www.papworthhospital.nhs.uk
Lists	Hospitals in England

Papworth Hospital is a heart and lung hospital in Cambridgeshire, England. It was home to the first successful heart transplant in the UK and one of the world's first beating-heart transplants. Papworth Hospital is due to move to new premises on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus in 2018.^[1][2][3][4]

History

The hospital was founded in 1917 as a sanitorium and hospital for the treatment of tuberculosis. From the 1950s, surgical facilities developed, beginning with thoracic (chest/lung) surgery and expanding to cardiac surgery. Today, Papworth is the UK's main heart/lung transplant centre.

Original historical documents relating to Papworth Hospital, the Village Settlement and the TB colony are today held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at the County Record Office in Cambridge.

Services

The Papworth site has two main building complexes: the main building (providing cardiology and all surgical services, together with the intensive care unit) and the Chest Medical Unit (providing respiratory medicine services). Subspecialities include:

Those based in the Chest Medical Unit:

• the Respiratory Support and Sleep Centre, providing services for patients with sleep disorders (including common disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea and less common ones such as narcolepsy) and those with ventilatory failure (from conditions such as COPD or neuromuscular disorders including motor neuron disease and poliomyelitis). The service provides non-invasive ventilation and also accepts referrals from other intensive care units to wean patients from invasive ventilation;
• the pulmonary hypertension (PH) service (Papworth is one of the four UK Pulmonary Hypertension centres and the only one providing pulmonary thromboendarterectomy);
• the adult cystic fibrosis service;
• the Lung Defense service, for patients with recurrent lung infection, including those with bronchiectasis and immunodeficiency;
• the thoracic oncology (lung cancer) service;
• the ataxia telangiectasia service;
• services for patients with pulmonary fibrosis, vasculitis, and rare diseases including granulomatosis with polyangiitis and pulmonary alveolar proteinosis.

Those based in the main building:

• cardiac surgery, including heart transplantation, coronary artery bypass grafting, heart valve surgery, and pulmonary thromboendarterectomy;
• thoracic surgery, including lung cancer resection and lung transplantation;
• cardiology, including coronary angiography and coronary angioplasty, plus facilities for cardiac electrophysiology and catheter ablation, pacemaker insertion, implantable cardiac defibrillator, transcatheter structural heart procedures such as valve implantation
• intensive care services.

Performance

On 2 November 2007 it was announced that Papworth Hospital would suspend heart transplant activities while an investigation was undertaken into an unexplained rise in recipient mortality rates.^[5] The Hospital was given the all-clear on 19 November 2007 after the Healthcare Commission ruled the quality of care was good.^[6]

It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 1677 full time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.63%. 92% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 75% recommended it as a place to work.^[7]

Plans

The plans to move the hospital onto the Cambridge Biomedical Campus next to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, have been agreed. The move was initially expected to be completed in 2017.^[8] However, an intervention by the Treasury in February 2014 meant that these plans had to be put on hold, and raised the possibility that some or all of its services may be moved to Peterborough City Hospital. This had raised concerns due to financial problems at that hospital.^[9]

In May 2014, a new CT Scanner was unveiled by the hospital's royal patron, the Duchess of Gloucester.

Notable patients

On December 23, 2011, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, then 90 years of age, underwent successful coronary angioplasty and stenting at Papworth Hospital.^[10][11]

See also

• Healthcare in Cambridgeshire
• List of hospitals in England

References

External links

• New Papworth Hospital website
• Papworth Hospital Papworth Hospital website
• Respiratory Support and Sleep Centre microsite
• Papworth Direct microsite
• The Papworth Hospital Charity website
• The Papworth Hospital Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care website
• Papworth Clinic website for the Papworth's Private Patients' Centre

Coordinates: 52°14′53″N 0°06′39″W / 52.248057°N 0.110770°W / 52.248057; -0.110770