James Ward was officially opened on 29 Jan 1999 by retired Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Peter Brook. It was a purpose built acute admissions and assessment ward on the Hills Road site for people over 65 with mental health problems. It was Dr Brook’s dream when he first joined the mental health team at Fulbourn Hospital …
Month: January 2019
Orthopaedic Department
The development of the Orthopaedic Department at the Hospital is of particular interest since in some parts of the country it was held up by the general surgeons who strongly resented the loss of patients always regarded as coming within the province of surgery. This was not the case at Addenbrooke’s. An Orthopaedic Department was …
In Patient Admissions
I was looking for some information in early 20th Annual Reports of the Hospital when I came across a list of the parishes and towns patients had been admitted from. The lists are divided into in-patients and out-patients and the summary for in-patients in 1931. There had been 4,467 inpatient admissions during the year and …
Addenbrooke’s’ first open-heart operation
On the 10 January 1975 Addenbrooke’s first open-heart operation took place. The operation was on a 15 year old boy and was the first of six planned at Addenbrooke’s. The previous year the Hospitals Medical Committee had set up a programme to provide experience and training in open-heart surgery for medical, nursing and other staff. …
Nineteenth Century research at Addenbrooke’s
Sir George Murray Humphry was one of the giants of Cambridge medicine in the nineteenth century and surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital for 52 years. He was elected surgeon in 1842 and he immediately began to use the hospital with the deliberate design of making a school of Medicine in Cambridge. Although the hospital was small …
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