If you were to join all of the bed sheets that are used in one year together they would stretch from Cambridge to Lands End. The hospital laundry service washes 5300 tons of linen every year, which is 4.5 million items of linen. The portering staff respond within 9 min to about 280 requests for assistance each day. In 1999, Addenbrooke's won an NHS award for equality in employment. There are 1264 inpatient beds.
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The number of cotton wool balls used during a year would fill an Olympic swimming pool. In 1968, Professor Sir Roy Calne performed the first liver transplant at Addenbrooke's. Since 1966, surgeons have performed more than 1700 renal transplants. One of the first kidneys to be transplanted 35 years ago is still functioning well today. A liver transplant costs over 40 000.