Hear from leaders in government, business and the media on their views on Cambridge Children's Hospital.
We are grateful for all the people we have worked with over the years to help turn Cambridge Children's Hospital into a reality. Below is a selection of what others have said about us.
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Sir Stephen Fry, Broadcaster
“I am delighted to support Cambridge Children’s Hospital, the first purpose built hospital to integrate children’s mental and physical healthcare.”
“This is the very first of its kind, a new approach to healthcare, a new type of children’s hospital. A hospital built from scratch, which understands the whole child drawing on research into mind and body to treat mental and physical health together, seeing a person, not just a patient, taking care of them, not just their illness.”
Bonnie Garmus, Author
“I think mental health and physical health are completely tied, there’s no way that can you separate the two. So having them together in one building is really important for the child, probably extra important for the parent so they don’t have to go all over the place. It’s a holistic approach, which only makes sense."
"I was the Mom of a child who was very ill when she was young and we lived in a city, in Seattle that had a great children’s hospital and I’m very grateful for that. I think all children should be near a great hospital.”
Alexandra Norrish, Managing Director, Children’s Hospital Alliance
“We recently met the team behind the new Cambridge Children’s Hospital and found out more about the plans to integrate mental and physical health, provide a dedicated and holistic space to care for and treat children and young people in the East of England, improve facilities for families and bring research into the heart of children’s services. It’s vitally important that children and young people’s unique needs are prioritised and we are looking forward to seeing these plans develop further.”
Dame Rachel de Souza, Children's Commissioner for England
"I was delighted to visit the Cambridge Biomedical Campus to talk to clinicians and the inspirational young people involved in the co-production of the exciting new plans for Cambridge Children's Hospital."
"As Children’s Commissioner, I hear from children and young people all the time about the need for effective, community-based health services and I am looking forward to seeing how the Hospital’s innovative approach to treating mental and physical health will better support children in the East of England."
Dr Xand van Tulleken, Broadcaster
“It’s so impressive that the children, the patients themselves and their families are helping shape the entire design of a hospital that will benefit the entire region, and that genuinely blows my mind. It’s a whole new way of doing medicine and this is the model of how all healthcare should be delivered.”
