Royal Papworth Hospital | |
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Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | |
Geography | |
Location | Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 52°10′25″N 0°08′08″E / 52.173618°N 0.135626°E |
Organisation | |
Care system | Public NHS |
Type | Specialist |
Affiliated university | University of Cambridge Medical School |
Services | |
Emergency department | No Accident & Emergency |
Beds | 300 |
Speciality | Cardiothoracic hospital |
History | |
Opened | 1918 |
Links | |
Website | royalpapworth |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
Royal Papworth Hospital is a specialist heart and lung hospital, located on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus in Cambridgeshire, England. The Hospital is run by Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
The hospital is a world-leading cardiothoracic transplant centre and the biggest in the UK, having carried out more heart and lung transplants in 2019/20 than any other hospital.[1] It is also home to the UK's biggest sleep centre, and is one of five hospitals commissioned by NHS England to provide Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) to adults with severe respiratory failure.[2]