Cambridge Children's Hospital

Cambridge Children's Hospital Together will build the first East of England children’s hospital

We were delighted to welcome Julie Spence, His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, as well as Deputy Lieutenant...
17/04/2026

We were delighted to welcome Julie Spence, His Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, as well as Deputy Lieutenants representing Cambridgeshire to our project site this week. They met members of our clinical, project and fundraising team to hear about the progress of Cambridge Children's Hospital, our unique vision of care and fundraising campaign.

Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust - help make your hospitals even better

17/04/2026

Dame Mary Archer, Co-chair of our Campaign Board, has described the Cambridge Children's Hospital project as "close to my heart", having championed the need for a children’s hospital on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus for almost thirty years.

Dame Mary says she's delighted that the new hospital now has real momentum behind it.

Read about our campaign > https://orlo.uk/t92r2

Cambridge Children's Hospital will be the first specialist children's hospital for the East of England, unique in bringing mental and physical healthcare, plus world-leading research, under one roof.

Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust - help make your hospitals even better
Head to Toe Charity
University of Cambridge

Everyone loves a buffet, but how about a delicious-looking 'evidence' buffet?!The Cambridge Children's Hospital food tea...
13/04/2026

Everyone loves a buffet, but how about a delicious-looking 'evidence' buffet?!

The Cambridge Children's Hospital food team, in collaboration with the University of Hertfordshire, ran a brilliant 'Food with Care' session at our conference. Facilitated by broadcaster Dr Xand van Tulleken, delegates were invited to discover why food is fundamental to care and how it can be delivered at our new hospital. They took part in playful activities, including food hoopla, to explore the physical, emotional, social and environmental importance of food in hospital, from pleasure, comfort and connection to support for carers, sustainability and social value.

All the ideas will help develop the vision for Cambridge Children's to be an anchor organisation that delivers a whole new way for food in hospital, benefitting patients, carers, staff, the East of England and the planet.

https://orlo.uk/rJqo7

09/04/2026

"Cambridge Children’s Hospital will set the model for healthcare around the world."

It was super exciting to welcome Dr Xand van Tulleken to our Children's Healthcare Conference, who is impressed by our plans and future models of care, after first visiting us in March 2024.

Cambridge Children's Hospital will be the first to unite mental and physical healthcare with world-leading life sciences research in a whole new way, treating mind and body as one.

Members of our Young Adult Forum – Yasmin and James – and two Parent Advocates – Kate and Sarah – joined Dr Xand for a brilliant and lively panel discussion about how their voices are shaping the new specialist hospital.

Read more: https://orlo.uk/ZLRJV

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
University of Cambridge

07/04/2026

For World Health Day, celebrating the power of science and health, we wanted to share a few words from Professor Sam Behjati's talk at our recent conference. As Director of the Cambridge Children's Hospital Research Institute, Professor Behjati speaks about "a new way of working", by removing siloes in healthcare, bringing together specialties and research. The East of England's new specialist children's hospital will be the first in the world to fully integrate mental health, physical health, and research, under one roof.

Professor Behjati is also Head of Paediatrics at the University of Cambridge, one of our partner organisations, along with Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.

Find out more about the Cambridge Children's Hospital project 👉 https://orlo.uk/dkpd6

02/04/2026

The voices of children, young people, parents and carers are at the forefront of the Cambridge Children's Hospital project - and always have been.

We hugely value the many people who give their time and share their lived experiences, to support the development of the first specialist children's hospital for the East of England.

This is why we were thrilled that some of our youth and parent advocates were able to join a panel discussion with Dr Xand van Tulleken at our conference last week. They talked movingly about the power of the patient and carer voice in shaping services.

01/04/2026

"Thinking about children's mental health, their wellbeing, their education, I love that in the vision for Cambridge Children's Hospital."

We were delighted to be joined by the Children's Commissioner for England at our first healthcare conference last week.

Dame Rachel de Souza says she's a "massive supporter" of our approach to fully integrate mental and physical healthcare under one roof, with a world-leading research institute embedded inside the building.

Read more: https://orlo.uk/mfOV1

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust
University of Cambridge

Let's make the Cambridge Children's Hospital vision stand out! One of the highlights of last week's conference was givin...
01/04/2026

Let's make the Cambridge Children's Hospital vision stand out! One of the highlights of last week's conference was giving delegates the opportunity to get hands on and create brightly coloured 'A Whole New Way' prints to take home. We also invited them to pledge their support for the East of England's first specialist children's hospital. Would you like to pledge yours, too? 👉 https://orlo.uk/jh1Js

Cambridge Children's Hospital will be unique in bringing together physical and mental healthcare under one roof, alongside world-leading research. We are pioneering a whole new way of caring for children and young people across the region, and beyond.

We hosted our inaugural conference on Friday - and it was a huge success! 👏 The event celebrated the pioneering work tha...
30/03/2026

We hosted our inaugural conference on Friday - and it was a huge success! 👏 The event celebrated the pioneering work that is shaping the future of children’s healthcare. We welcomed over a hundred delegates and high profile guests including the Children’s Commissioner for England Dame Rachel de Souza and broadcaster Dr Xand van Tulleken. More than twenty speakers took to the stage, with subjects ranging from:

🔸 The importance of removing the siloes of mental and physical healthcare
🔹 A ground-breaking initiative designed to close the evidence and infrastructure gap in children’s health
🔸 Rapid whole genome sequencing for childhood cancer
🔹 How the lived experience of patients and their carers is shaping Cambridge Children’s Hospital.

Held at Murray Edwards College in Cambridge, the event was sponsored by the project’s construction partner Bouygues UK. Read the full story > https://orlo.uk/JXMNK

Located on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge Children’s Hospital will be a world first in fully integrating mental and physical healthcare under one roof, with a world-leading research institute embedded in the heart of the building. It will bring specialist care closer to home giving children and families across the East of England better, more equitable access to the care they need with less time away from school, home and community. The Full Business Case will be submitted to government later this year, with construction expected to start in 2027 and last for three years.

27/03/2026

What an incredible day at the first ever Cambridge Children's Hospital conference!

Here are some highlights:
🎯 Over 100 delegates
🎯 More than 20 speakers
🎯 Keynote speech by The Children's Commissioner, Dame Rachel de Souza
🎯 TV's Dr Xand van Tulleken talking coproduction with young people and parents
🎯 Breakout sessions: food, school, art, construction
🎯 Stunning artwork created to take home
🎯 Networking and chat!

Thank you to everyone who was involved, as an attendee, a speaker, or facilitator. Want to see a snapshot? Watch the video!

We will sharing more about the conference next week. Watch this space!

We were thrilled to hear from The Children’s Commissioner for England Rachel deSouza at our conference, following the la...
27/03/2026

We were thrilled to hear from The Children’s Commissioner for England Rachel deSouza at our conference, following the launch of her report earlier this week that highlights the thousands of young patients awaiting discharge from hospital.

She used the event to focus on key problems in health policy, but also how paying attention to children, whether as family, as professionals, or as services, is the basis of care and ultimately love.

Read our response to Dame Rachel’s report > https://tinyurl.com/4e86rdw8

What a great panel discussion!Dr Xand van Tulleken chatting with members of our Youth and Parent Groups about the import...
27/03/2026

What a great panel discussion!

Dr Xand van Tulleken chatting with members of our Youth and Parent Groups about the importance of lived experience in shaping current and future services.

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