Addenbrooke's is an NHS Cancer Centre, which means that it provides the very best treatment for the rarer forms of cancer. It also provides a service to Cambridge and the surrounding area for the more common forms of the disease. We have just opened a new Breast Unit to provide an integrated service for women with suspected and diagnosed breast cancer. Two additional radiotherapy machines will be installed in the near future and existing machines replaced. More than a third of a million people a year have appointments at our outpatients clinics, and this number continues to grow.
Many clinics are seriously overcrowded, leading to delays for patients.
The plan is to provide additional clinic space, which would improve waiting times and the experience of attending clinics for many patients. The most seriously ill patients are treated in either intensive care or high-dependency units. It is obviously extremely important that these units are big enough to take all emergencies requiring this very high level of care. The Hospital has recently rebuilt and extended its Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, and now needs to expand the provision for adult intensive care. The Hospital plans to expand both the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit and the John Farman Intensive Care Unit, to increase the numbers of critical-care beds.