Information about this hospital might be outdated.
Details
Address
Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 2QQ
Previous Locations
Trumpington St, Cambridge (1766 - c.1984)
Some departments transferred from October 1961 to present site.
Current Trust
Addenbrooke's NHS Trust (since 1993)
Foundation Year
1719
Status
Open
Administrative Authorities
Regional Board (1948-1974)
Provinces (Teaching)
Management Committee (1948-1974)
United Cambridge
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
East Anglian
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
East Anglian
District Authority (1974-1982)
Cambridge (Teaching)
District Authority (Post-1982)
Cambridge
Pre-1974 County
Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely
Post-1974 County
Cambridgeshire
Post-1996 County
Cambridgeshire
Status
Pre-1948
Voluntary
Pre-1948 information
VOL: Founded by will of John Addenbrooke in 1719 but little built until 1766-77. It first admitted patients in 1766.
Post-1948
NHS
Type
Pre-1948
General, Maternity
Pre-1948 information
Maternity 1917 - 1939 for abnormal confinements.
Post-1948
Acute
Other information
An official history of Addenbrooke's Hospital (up to 1973) was published by the Cambridge University Press in 1991.
Title: The History of Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
Authors: A. Rook, M. Carlton and W.G. Cannon
ISBN: 0521 405297
One of the United Cambrige Hospitals, a designated Teaching hospital Unit under the 1946 Act 1948 - 21974.
Record locations
Addenbrooke's Hospital, Archives Office
Record types
Administrative
1740 - 2007
General
1766 - 2007
Finance
1740 - 2006
Estates
1766 - 2007
Nursing
1888 - 1975
Staff
1907 - 1943
Admission
1912 - 1880
Clinical
1867 - 1992
Ephemera
1993 - 2007
Pictorial
1790 - 2007
Private Papers
1929 - 2000
Other
1864 - 2007
Finding aids
Finding aids
Catalogue, Computerised
Location
At Repository (AR), Local Record Office (LRO), National Register of Archives (NRA)
Details
Electronic catalogue at http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk