Introduction

Who we are?

Cambridge University Hospitals – Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie – is a community of twelve thousand people who are passionate about improving people’s lives. We provide services as a local hospital for local people, and as a specialist hospital for a much wider population. As an academic medical centre we work across 75 medical and surgical specialties, with corporate and support teams – and health, care, academic and industry partners – to deliver care, learning and research.

Each of these three strands is equally important: caring for patients who are sick today while training the skilled staff who will care for patients in the future and researching the next generation of advances to clinical practice. Each strand also supports the other two strands: conducting research attracts staff wanting to broaden their skills and enables our patients to benefit from better care sooner; and providing care enables innovative clinical treatments to get into practice sooner.

Our location in Cambridge, as part of an innovation ecosystem, unlocks huge opportunity to go further. As the largest centre of health science and medical research in Europe, we aspire to continue developing the cross-industry partnerships that further improve outcomes for patients while powering economic growth.

Care

CUH provides

• Emergency, medical and surgical care for a local population of half a million people in Cambridge, South and East Cambridgeshire; and is a member of the Integrated Care Board serving a million people across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough;
• Specialist services for a regional population of six million people across the East of England; and
• National services in organ transplantation, cancer, neurosciences, paediatrics, genetics and rare or complex conditions.

Learning

CUH is a teaching hospital for:

• Medical students from the University of Cambridge;
• Undergraduate students and apprentices in areas including Nursing, Allied Health Professions, Pharmacy, Radiography, Midwifery, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, from a number of partner Higher Education providers; and
• Apprentices in non-clinical roles including estates, engineering, maintenance, plumbing, customer service, administration and data.

Research

CUH is

• Part of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) through the Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (BRC);
• A member of Cambridge University Health Partners (CUHP), one of eight Academic Health Science Centres; and
• A partner with the University of Cambridge and a thriving ecosystem of life sciences and technology industry on and beyond the Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC).

A year at CUH in numbers

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Our values, vision and priorities

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Our commitments in summary

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