Royal Papworth Hospital

Royal Papworth Hospital Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital
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Royal Papworth Hospital is one of the largest specialist heart and lung hospitals in Europe and a world leader in transplantation. Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, the hospital has a reputation for research and innovation, the basis on which it achieved royal status in 2018. In 2019 it was rated 'outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission and was the first hospital trust in the UK to receive this top rating in the five main categories that the CQC assesses. With an extraordinary commitment to delivering the highest levels of clinical expertise and patient care, more than 50,000 patients are treated at the hospital each year as inpatients, outpatients or day cases. Royal Papworth Hospital’s services are internationally recognised and include cardiology, respiratory medicine, sleep medicine, cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery and heart & lung transplantation. It is also one of five hospitals in England commissioned to provide ECMO for patients in severe respiratory failure and is a national centre for services provided nowhere else in the UK, including balloon pulmonary angioplasty and pulmonary endarterectomy.

Bringing a burst of positivity to every day 🌞Meet Leanne, a nursing associate on 4South. She stands out for her exceptio...
03/01/2026

Bringing a burst of positivity to every day 🌞

Meet Leanne, a nursing associate on 4South. She stands out for her exceptional dedication and compassion, consistently going above and beyond in both her studies and clinical practice.

She embodies the very best of nursing's future - driven, curious and endlessly positive.

She brightens the day of patients and colleagues with her outstanding care, unwavering commitment and inspiring presence.

These are all reasons why Leanne was named Student / Apprentice of the Year at the Royal Papworth Staff Awards 2025.

Congratulations, Leanne and thank you for being a shining example of excellence and development in the nursing profession. 💙

02/01/2026

The Met Office and UKHSA have issued a amber cold-health alert for parts of the country, including the East of England.

Please plan ahead before making long journeys, make sure you have enough food and medicine and do your best to keep warm.

For other tips on staying well this winter, visit https://www.cpics.org.uk/well-together

Happy New Year from everyone at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.Thank you to all our colleagues working or ...
01/01/2026

Happy New Year from everyone at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Thank you to all our colleagues working or those on-call overnight and throughout today, keeping our services running and our patients safe. 🫶🏻

Our love also goes out to everyone with relatives or friends being treated in our hospital as we enter 2026. 💙

31/12/2025

NHS lung cancer screening - Peter's story 🫁

The NHS lung cancer screening programme is detecting lung cancer early , when treatment is most likely to be successful, and saving lives.

One person who came forward for screening was Peter, from Peterborough. He had no symptoms but agreed to screening providing he could get a weekend appointment.

Here you can watch his story, as featured on Cancer Clinic Live as part of Stand Up To Cancer on Channel 4, earlier this month.

If you receive an invitation for lung cancer screening, please please do not ignore it. It could save your life.

A huge thank you also to all our partners involved in the lung cancer screening programme: North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, InHealth and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Integrated Care System (ICS). 💙

29/12/2025

Reducing waiting times for our heart, lung and sleep patients 🫀🫁😴

Watch this BBC Look East report to discover how we've reduced our waiting list for eight successive months, with staff earning national recognition for their hard work.

Between April and September, we were the second-best NHS hospital trust in England for cutting waiting times for planned care.

This visit to our Respiratory Support and Sleep Centre (RSSC) included:
- Learning how we’re reducing our waiting times and why it matters to patients
- Seeing examples of how teamwork and technology is helping us transform the experience for patients undergoing sleep studies
- Meeting Robin, a patient from King's Lynn in Norfolk, starting CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) treatment today, after recently being diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnoea.

We have up to 900 referrals per month to our RSSC (and it's getting busier) and our CPAP team helps about 75 new people begin CPAP treatment each week. They are a busy team doing incredible work.

Another major focus in recent months has been treating our patients who have been waiting more than a year for treatment.

This included 81-year old cardiology patient Roderick, who the BBC visited at his home in Cambridgeshire.

Roderick recently underwent a TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation), which treats aortic stenosis. He reflected on his experience and reveals the positive impact it’s had on his life since.

Thank you to everyone involved in helping to transform lives like Roderick’s 🫶🏼 💙

Recognising and celebrating our NHS staff ⭐Congratulations to the following five members of Royal Papworth staff who wer...
28/12/2025

Recognising and celebrating our NHS staff ⭐

Congratulations to the following five members of Royal Papworth staff who were selected at random in our latest monthly Laudit draw:

- Gary Hill, Physiotherapy Rehabilitation Assistant Practitioner
- Lalie Constantin, Heritage Officer
- Lyn Cooper, Assistant Healthcare Support Worker
- Paige Smith, Critical Care Scientist
- Rushmi Purmessur, Senior Cardiothoracic Surgical Trainee

Back in October, our staff sent a record-breaking 465 Laudits to celebrate the everyday extraordinary achievements of their colleagues.

Our award-winning positive incident reporting platform, Laudit, allows our people to send positive feedback to one another in just a few simple clicks.

Everyone who receives a Laudit is automatically entered into a monthly draw and five winners are selected at random.

Lalie, pictured here on the left, was praised for her enthusiasm and willingness to help her colleagues: "It’s lovely to feel the support of my team, and to see that my efforts don’t go unnoticed," she said.

Meanwhile Lyn, on the right, was recognised for going above and beyond on a particularly challenging day in our catheter laboratories, while maintaining a positive can-do attitude. 💙

🔗 Learn more about Lalie, Lyn, Paige, Garry and Rushmi:
https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/our-hospital/latest-news/congratulations-our-october-2025-laudit-winners

Watch Royal Papworth Hospital Charity's carol concert 🎵Christmas Day may have passed, but if you're still full of festiv...
26/12/2025

Watch Royal Papworth Hospital Charity's carol concert 🎵

Christmas Day may have passed, but if you're still full of festive spirit then why not sit back, relax and enjoy our charity's carol concert?

Experience the magic at the beautiful Ely Cathedral as hundreds came together for an afternoon of reflection, remembrance, thanksgiving and of course, carols!

Money raised from the concert will help support the charity's Brighter Futures for Brighter Spaces campaign. You can make a donation today at www.royalpapworthcharity.com.

🔗 Watch the whole concert back on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/live/mTHKCppvo5M

Spreading Christmas cheer this morning 🎁Patients waking up at our hospital this Christmas morning were greeted with fest...
25/12/2025

Spreading Christmas cheer this morning 🎁

Patients waking up at our hospital this Christmas morning were greeted with festive smiles thanks to thoughtful gifts provided by Royal Papworth Hospital Charity.

A huge thank you to Clare from our PALS team, theatre receptionist Claire, volunteer Carole, and their families for giving their time to deliver presents today.

We’re also grateful to our finance team, who last week helped our charity colleagues wrap every gift in under 45 minutes!

And of course, thank you to Royal Papworth Charity for funding these gifts, bringing joy to patients spending Christmas Day with us. 💙

Merry Christmas from all of us here at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.A huge thank you to all our staff an...
25/12/2025

Merry Christmas from all of us here at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

A huge thank you to all our staff and volunteers who are working, or are on-call, today and over the festive period, keeping our patients safe and our services running. 💙

Claire spreading Christmas cheer 🎹✨We loved seeing heart transplant patient Claire back at our atrium piano recently, en...
24/12/2025

Claire spreading Christmas cheer 🎹✨

We loved seeing heart transplant patient Claire back at our atrium piano recently, entertaining everyone with some festive tunes.

You may remember earlier this year we shared two videos of Claire, who was born blind, playing and singing two classics from Elton John.

'Rocket Man', was recorded in her inpatient room here at Royal Papworth in April, while she was on the UK's 'urgent' heart transplant waiting list. 🚀

'Your Song', was recorded a few months later on our atrium piano, following recovery from her transplant, after a suitable donor heart was found. 🎵

So when Claire said she was visiting again earlier this month, we knew exactly where to find her.

A special mention to Claire's partner Paul, who retuned the piano in May as a gift for the care she received - it's still sounding fantastic.

Thank you Claire for returning to spread some Christmas cheer and thank you to all our teams who provide care and support for our transplant patients. 💙

Sleighing the Christmas jumper look 🛷🎅As the countdown continues to the festive period, our staff have donned their best...
23/12/2025

Sleighing the Christmas jumper look 🛷🎅

As the countdown continues to the festive period, our staff have donned their best seasonal attire for Papworth Pullover Day.

Colleagues participated in Royal Papworth Hospital Charity's annual celebration, helping to raise vital charitable funds and spread Christmas cheer around the hospital. As you can see from these photos, which also includes transplant patient Claire and her guide dog, they really got in the 'knitmas' spirit!

You can still text ‘PULLOVER’ to 70085 to donate £1 to Royal Papworth Charity, in aid of its Brighter Futures for Brighter Spaces campaign.

Also in the past few days, a number of our executive team, including Chief Executive Eilish Midlane and Chief Nurse Maura Screaton, visited teams around the hospital to meet staff, provide some mince pies for those working the day and night shifts, and thank them for their continued hard work.

Thank you to everyone involved in organising or participating in these festive activities. 💙

A new heart in time for Christmas 🫀 🎄After nearly nine months in hospital and a life-saving heart transplant, 44-year-ol...
22/12/2025

A new heart in time for Christmas 🫀 🎄

After nearly nine months in hospital and a life-saving heart transplant, 44-year-old Lynne from Cambridge is finally home for Christmas and feeling stronger every day. 🏡

“I had my transplant last month and I’m surprised how quickly my strength and energy have come back,” Lynne says.

“If someone had told me beforehand that I might be home a month after a heart transplant, I’d never have believed them!”

Lynne’s journey began when a sudden medical emergency revealed severe heart failure.

After months of waiting on the UK transplant list at Royal Papworth Hospital, a call finally came that a donor heart was available.

“The care has been incredible. When they talk about the ‘Papworth family’, they truly mean it,” Lynne says.

Now, she’s looking forward to the simple things: home-cooked meals, sleeping in her own bed, and heading out without worrying about stairs or hills. And of course, Christmas.

Her mum, Jean, sums it up perfectly: “When Lynne asked about Christmas presents, we told her, ‘Our best Christmas present is having you home, we don’t need anything else’.” 💝

Lynne’s story is one of strength, hope and the incredible gift of life:
🔗 https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/our-hospital/latest-news/new-heart-time-christmas-lynnes-story-strength-and-hope

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Royal Papworth Hospital is a world-renowned specialist cardiothoracic (heart and lung) hospital and includes the UK’s main adult heart and lung transplant centre.

The hospital has an extraordinary commitment to delivering the highest levels of clinical quality and providing the best possible standards of personalised care to its patients.

Royal Papworth treats approximately 25,000 inpatients and day cases and sees more than 75,000 outpatients each year from across the UK. Its services are internationally recognised and include cardiology, respiratory medicine, sleep medicine, cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery and heart & lung transplantation. Over the last three years, it has performed the highest number of heart surgery procedures in the UK whilst achieving the country’s lowest cardiac surgery mortality rate. Located in Cambridge in the East of England, the hospital sees patients for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiothoracic disease, it is also a national centre for a range of specialist services, including pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA).