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The old hospital at Papworth Everard. Papworth Hospital was founded at Papworth Everard (to the west of Cambridge) in 1918 as a sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis among discharged soldiers who had served in the First World War, following a campaign led by Elsbeth Dimsdale, and was initially known as the “Cambridgeshire Tuberculosis Colony”. [3]
Papworth Everard is a village in Cambridgeshire, England. It lies ten miles west of Cambridge and six miles south of Huntingdon . Running through its centre is Ermine Street , the old North Road (now the A1198 ) and the Roman highway that for centuries served as a major artery from London to York .
Papworth may refer to: Manor of Papworth, Ripley, Surrey, England; Papworth Everard, a village in Cambridgeshire, England Papworth Hospital, a heart and lung hospital in Papworth Everard Papworth method, a diaphragmatic breathing technique developed at Papworth Hospital; Papworth Industries, the manufacturing arm of Papworth Village Settlement
The Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (formerly the Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) is an NHS foundation trust based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It runs the Royal Papworth Hospital on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. The Trust achieved foundation status on 1 July 2004. [1]
He is one of just four surgeons in the UK qualified to perform pulmonary endarterectomy surgery, all based at Royal Papworth, which is one of the most active centres in the world for this operation with approximately 190 operations performed each year and a total caseload since 1996 of more than 2,000.
Papworth St Agnes is a village and civil parish in South Cambridgeshire, England. The population of the village is included in the civil parish of Graveley It has also been known as Papworth Magna, to distinguish it from the adjoining Papworth Everard and Papworth Parva. The name of the village does not come from any church of St Agnes, but ...
Over 20,000 people work at the site, which is home to Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, AstraZeneca's headquarters, Abcam, the Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK, the University of Cambridge's medical school, and the United Kingdom's governmental Medical Research Council, which ...
On 5 July 1948, the hospitals and surgical units at Papworth were brought under state control as part of the newly founded National Health Service. [13] As tuberculosis retreated, Papworth looked to help those disabled by other diseases. A pilot scheme was launched in 1957 to extend Papworth to benefit non-TB disabled. Training schemes were set ...