TV's Dr Xand van Tulleken met the Cambridge Children's Hospital team, parents and young people to learn more about our work to build the East of England's first specialist children's hospital.
The CBBC Operation Ouch star visited the Cambridge Children's Hospital future site on Friday 22 March. Preparation works are underway to start preparing the site, opposite the Rosie Hospital on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, ahead of full construction starting next year.
Dr Xand says the project’s plans to bring mental health, physical health, and world-leading research under one roof demonstrate the “exciting” future of the NHS and children’s healthcare.
TV Dr Xand visits Cambridge Children's Hospital site
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“What really stood out for me is how much things have changed, since I qualified as a doctor,” said Dr Xand.
What’s even more impressive is that the children, the patients themselves and their families are helping shape the entire design of a hospital that will benefit the entire region, and that genuinely blows my mind. It’s a whole new way of doing medicine.
Dr Xand van Tulleken, TV doctor
Xand spent time with members of Cambridge Children’s Hospital’s Network and Youth Forum, a group of children and young people helping to design and build the future hospital, based on their own lived experiences of attending hospital and using mental health services.
The TV doctor also met staff on CUH's D2 ward, The East Genomic Laboratory Hub, and staff from the Cambridge Children’s Hospital team, bringing together clinical expertise, world-leading knowledge and lived experience into the future hospital.
Cambridge Children’s Hospital will be the first hospital truly designed to treat both mental and physical healthcare together, with integrated wards, single occupancy bedrooms, access to gardens and terraces, and a school.
Dr Xand remarked on what an exciting day he had, learning more about the unique vision of Cambridge Children’s Hospital.