Cambridge Children's Hospital

Conversations that make a difference

Between April and September this year we ran a series of design workshops with children, young people, parents and carers. Their ideas, based on their lived experience of being in hospital or using mental health services, helped shape the early-stage designs that were submitted for our planning application in September.

Cash boost awarded to ground-breaking study aimed at finding new treatments for rare cancer in young people

"I think our family’s journey may have been smoother if we’d had mental health support right from the start."

Cambridge Children's Hospital will support the child who is poorly, but also the whole family. That's because being in hospital affects everyone. Thirteen-year-old Macie is a member of Cambridge Children's Press Pack. Her brother Oliver has spent most of his life in and out of hospital. This is Macie's story. It includes a video that she and nine-year-old Oliver made about his 'Beads of Courage'.

Cambridge Children’s Hospital seeks planning permission for early designs

Cambridge Children’s Hospital took another step forward last week by submitting a planning application to Cambridge City Council for the Hospital’s early designs.

Cambridge Children’s Hospital webinar with Professor David Rowitch

As part of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus on Virtual Tour series (CBCoVT), watch Professor David Rowitch discussing Cambridge Children's Hospital and what we can expect from this new centre of excellence.

Artificial pancreas helps babies with type 1 diabetes

Babies with type 1 diabetes can be successfully treated using an ‘artificial pancreas’, preventing dangerous consequences of very high or very low glucose levels in their blood.