On 1 May last year the new Royal Papworth Hospital, a striking heart-shaped building located next to the city’s famous Addenbrooke’s Hospital on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, began accepting its first patients.
Like the pioneering early 20th-century facility it replaces, it will be the UK’s leading heart and lung hospital, treating over 100,000 patients annually, and – as one of six specialist UK cardiothoracic transplant centres – is expected to undertake more heart, heart-lung, and lung transplants than any of the other five adult such centres. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, recently visited the new hospital to find out more.
The new Royal Papworth Hospital, which cost £160 million to build, and a further £40 m to equip and fit out, was designed and built by a PFI consortium led by main contractor, Skanska Construction, work having begun on site in March 2015 and been completed a year late in the Spring of last year. One of the reasons for the new hospital’s late completion was the need for the main contractor to remove and replace the original cladding, which was identified as combustible – and thus unsuitable for use on a healthcare facility – following advice from the Department of Health in the wake of June 2017’s Grenfell Tower fire.
A striking first impression
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