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Expert panel in conversation about Cambridge Children’s Hospital vision for future of healthcare
The unique ambition of Cambridge Children’s Hospital was the topic of a panel discussion held in London recently. Around 60 people attended as part of an evening reception for the hospital’s fundraising campaign.
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Volunteers bring flower power to Cambridge Children’s Hospital site
Thousands of daffodil bulbs have been planted along the front of the future Cambridge Children's Hospital site.
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‘I’m a Celebrity'contestant to join literary lunch in aid of Cambridge Children's Hospital
Broadcaster, author and ‘I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here’ contestant Rev. Richard Coles has been announced as a guest speaker for a festive literary luncheon in December hosted by the Mayor of Peterborough, in aid of the new Cambridge Children’s Hospital (CCH).
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Children’s Commissioner visits the site of the upcoming Cambridge Children’s Hospital
Dame Rachel de Souza, the Children’s Commissioner for England, visited Cambridge Biomedical Campus last Friday to meet the clinicians and young people behind the first specialist children’s hospital for the East of England.
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Teenager who defied odds of survival features on Cambridge Children’s Hospital hoardings
The family of a teenage girl who was so poorly she wasn't expected to pull through are visiting the Cambridge Children's Hospital hoardings this week to celebrate her photo being part of this project milestone.
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New innovation hub will accelerate research in Cambridge Children’s Hospital, leading to earlier diagnosis for patients
A new research ‘Innovation Hub’ has been launched at Cambridge University Hospitals to help researchers treating common and rare diseases in children.
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Cambridge Children's Design Workshops March-May 2022
Between March and May 2022, we held a series of Design Workshops with children, young people, parents and carers from Cambridge Children's Network.
New genomic testing provides vital diagnosis for severely ill babies
Cambridge research suggests more than a third of severely sick babies given rapid whole genome sequencing have received a vital genetic diagnosis.
Children with IBD to join vital research
Children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) will be invited to join the NIHR BioResource in Cambridge, to help vital research into Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
100 children mark genetic testing milestone
More than 100 children with cancer from across the East of England have had their tumours tested by whole genome sequencing at Addenbrookes, to help improve their diagnosis and treatment.
CCH Creates! Cambridge Children's Hospital art workshops
The Cambridge Children’s Hospital project team took over Cambridge Junction for a day for a series of interactive art workshops.
Eliska is first to join rare disease trial
An Addenbrooke's team is leading a new, national trial to look at the best treatment for vasculitis - and has recruited its first patient, 10 year old Eliska.
Increase in ambulances for critically unwell children
A specialist ambulance service for critically unwell children, run by Cambridge University Hospitals, has been extended into Essex, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire from today.
A Press Pack interview: Macie interviews Dr Patrick Tarpey about cancer trial
Thirteen-year-old Macie's little brother, Oliver, has a rare cancer. He is on a drug trial that is helping to keep him well. Because of this Macie is interested to know more about advances in cancer treatment.
Planning Permission Granted for Cambridge Children’s Hospital
A children's hospital for the region takes another step forward as planning permission is granted for its early designs and floor plans.
New hope for treatment of infant cancer
Cambridge researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding a type of leukaemia in infants, which has baffled doctors for decades and limited improvements in treatment.
Webinar: Cambridge Children's Hospital's pioneering approach to mental health and school
In support of Children's Mental Health Week, Professor Tamsin Ford, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, and Dr Isobel Heyman, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital Paediatric Psychological Medicine Service, discuss the pioneering approach to mental health and school at Cambridge Children’s Hospital.
Using AI to improve the lives of children with mental health problems
A game-changing application of artificial intelligence (AI) is set to help doctors make earlier diagnoses of mental health problems in children and potentially change the course of their lives.
The journey towards preventing type 1 diabetes
Ocean is one of many diabetic patients taking part in ground breaking research and care at Addenbrooke's, to help find ways of preventing the condition.
Conversations that make a difference
Between April and September this year we ran a series of design workshops with children, young people, parents and carers. Their ideas, based on their lived experience of being in hospital or using mental health services, helped shape the early-stage designs that were submitted for our planning application in September.
Cash boost awarded to ground-breaking study aimed at finding new treatments for rare cancer in young people
Cambridge Children’s Hospital webinar with Professor David Rowitch
As part of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus on Virtual Tour series (CBCoVT), watch Professor David Rowitch discussing Cambridge Children's Hospital and what we can expect from this new centre of excellence.
Artificial pancreas helps babies with type 1 diabetes
Babies with type 1 diabetes can be successfully treated using an ‘artificial pancreas’, preventing dangerous consequences of very high or very low glucose levels in their blood.
Cambridge Children’s Hospital seeks planning permission for early designs
Cambridge Children’s Hospital took another step forward last week by submitting a planning application to Cambridge City Council for the Hospital’s early designs.
Jonnie Peacock gives champion support to new children's ambulance service
Paralympian Jonnie Peacock is supporting a specialist ambulance service for babies and children, as it launches 24/7 in Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.
Integrating physical and mental healthcare in a paediatric setting
A holistic approach to care will be at the heart of Cambridge Children’s ethos. To do this, it’s important that staff are dual trained in mental and physical health conditions, so they have the skills and knowledge to support and look after every single child and young person who enters the hospital – a whole child approach. This is why the first ChARMS seminar of the academic year was bang on message!