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Hospital

Papworth Hospital

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Details

Previous Names
Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis Colony (1916 - c.1925-29)
Part of Papworth Village Settlement (Bernard Baron and Princess Hospitals (c.1925 - 1929)
Papworth Sanatorium (1948 - 1958)
Address
Papworth Everard, CB3 8RE
Previous Locations
Bourn, Cambridgeshire (1916 - 1918)
Current Trust
Papworth NHS Trust - a trust of the Cambridge University Teaching Hospitals trust. (since 1993)
Foundation Year
1916
Status
Open

Administrative Authorities

Regional Board (1948-1974)
East Anglian
Management Committee (1948-1974)
Papworth Huntingdon
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
East Anglian
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
East Anglian
District Authority (1974-1982)
Cambridge (Teaching)
District Authority (Post-1982)
Huntingdon
Pre-1974 County
Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely
Post-1974 County
Cambridgeshire
Post-1996 County
Cambridgeshire

Status

Pre-1948
Voluntary
Pre-1948 information
VOL: Managed by Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis After-Care Association.
Post-1948
NHS

Type

Pre-1948
Tuberculosis
Post-1948
Acute

Other information

Before 1948 the Hospital and the Village Settlement operated as one concern. The latter has continued as an independant concern for the industrial re-training of the disabled, and for sheltered workshops etc, undertaken name of "The Papworth Trust", with main offices on same site. Hospital now "Cardiothoracic Centre for East Anglia". Well known for pioneering and continuing heart transplant surgery. Associated Hospitals: Bernard Baron Hospital - Subsidicy hospital on same or adjacent sites. Princess Hospital Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge 1959 substantial association due to establishment of Cardiology unit at Papworth with view to eventual transfer to new Addenbrooke's Hospital which has not taken place.

Record locations

  • Cambridgeshire County Record Office, Cambridge

    Record types

    Administrative
    1900 - 1998
    Finance
    1916 - 1998
    Estates
    1920 - 1959
    Clinical
    1922 - 1967
    Ephemera
    1920 - 1989
    Pictorial
    1920 - 1989
    Private Papers
    1900 - 1940

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Brief guide (BG)
    Location
    At Repository (AR)
    Case notes c1943 - 1967 and a small quantity from as early as 1922; fundraising papers 1989-98, cardiac unit case files (R105/001, 007)