Royal Papworth Hospital

Royal Papworth Hospital is one of the largest specialist heart and lung hospitals in Europe and a world leader in transplantation. Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, the hospital has a reputation for research and innovation, the basis on which it achieved royal status in 2018. In 2019 it was rated 'outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission and was the first hospital trust in the UK to rec

eive this top rating in the five main categories that the CQC assesses. With an extraordinary commitment to delivering the highest levels of clinical expertise and patient care, more than 50,000 patients are treated at the hospital each year as inpatients, outpatients or day cases. Royal Papworth Hospital’s services are internationally recognised and include cardiology, respiratory medicine, sleep medicine, cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery and heart & lung transplantation. It is also one of five hospitals in England commissioned to provide ECMO for patients in severe respiratory failure and is a national centre for services provided nowhere else in the UK, including balloon pulmonary angioplasty and pulmonary endarterectomy.