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Lily's story
At the heart of the new Cambridge Children's hospital, a Global Genome Institute will work to improve diagnosis and treatment for even the rarest conditions. Many children and young people with rare diseases have joined Cambridge Children's Network to get involved in how the new hospital will look, feel and care. One of them is Lily. For Rare Disease Day 2022, Lily and her mum Michelle explain what it's like to be a 'rare' family.
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Ehlana and Angela
A 'whole child' approach where there is no differentiation between mental and physical healthcare is at the core of Cambridge Children's vision. Ehlana was admitted as an inpatient after struggling with her mental health for some time. She and her mum, Angela, believe an integrated approach to care, with everything under one roof, will make a huge difference. Thank you Ehlana and Angela for sharing your stories.
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Sky's story
Drawing on her experience as an inpatient at a specialist eating disorders unit near Cambridge, 23-year-old Sky has become a passionate advocate for Cambridge Children’s vision of integrated care – where a child’s mental and physical health are treated together.
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Liam and Jo
As a teenager, Liam struggled with complex mental health challenges, spending many months at The Darwin Centre. He believes a children's hospital dedicated to treating mental and physical health as one will help reduce stigma for young people like him. Thank you Liam and mum, Jo, for telling your stories.
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Alex's story
When 9-year-old Alex bumped his head, his physical health declined rapidly. It took months for his condition to be linked to his mental health. Thank you Alex and family for sharing your stories.
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Anita's story
Anita Grant joined Cambridge Children's Network in memory of her daughter Jess, who died of a rare cancer when she was 15. Jess felt passionately that a dedicated children's hospital for the east of England was desperately needed. She even wanted to work there once it opened. Anita is making sure Jess's voice - her ideas - are heard.
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Teenagers tell Duke and Duchess about Cambridge Children’s Hospital
Young people involved in planning the new Cambridge Children’s Hospital (CCH) were delighted to meet The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge last week.
Cambridge Children's Design Workshops March-May 2022
Between March and May 2022, we held a series of Design Workshops with children, young people, parents and carers from Cambridge Children's Network.
New genomic testing provides vital diagnosis for severely ill babies
Cambridge research suggests more than a third of severely sick babies given rapid whole genome sequencing have received a vital genetic diagnosis.
Children with IBD to join vital research
Children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) will be invited to join the NIHR BioResource in Cambridge, to help vital research into Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
100 children mark genetic testing milestone
More than 100 children with cancer from across the East of England have had their tumours tested by whole genome sequencing at Addenbrookes, to help improve their diagnosis and treatment.
CCH Creates! Cambridge Children's Hospital art workshops
The Cambridge Children’s Hospital project team took over Cambridge Junction for a day for a series of interactive art workshops.
Eliska is first to join rare disease trial
An Addenbrooke's team is leading a new, national trial to look at the best treatment for vasculitis - and has recruited its first patient, 10 year old Eliska.
Increase in ambulances for critically unwell children
A specialist ambulance service for critically unwell children, run by Cambridge University Hospitals, has been extended into Essex, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire from today.
A Press Pack interview: Macie interviews Dr Patrick Tarpey about cancer trial
Thirteen-year-old Macie's little brother, Oliver, has a rare cancer. He is on a drug trial that is helping to keep him well. Because of this Macie is interested to know more about advances in cancer treatment.
Planning Permission Granted for Cambridge Children’s Hospital
A children's hospital for the region takes another step forward as planning permission is granted for its early designs and floor plans.
New hope for treatment of infant cancer
Cambridge researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding a type of leukaemia in infants, which has baffled doctors for decades and limited improvements in treatment.
Webinar: Cambridge Children's Hospital's pioneering approach to mental health and school
In support of Children's Mental Health Week, Professor Tamsin Ford, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, and Dr Isobel Heyman, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital Paediatric Psychological Medicine Service, discuss the pioneering approach to mental health and school at Cambridge Children’s Hospital.
Lily's story
At the heart of the new Cambridge Children's hospital, a Global Genome Institute will work to improve diagnosis and treatment for even the rarest conditions. Many children and young people with rare diseases have joined Cambridge Children's Network to get involved in how the new hospital will look, feel and care. One of them is Lily. For Rare Disease Day 2022, Lily and her mum Michelle explain what it's like to be a 'rare' family.
Using AI to improve the lives of children with mental health problems
A game-changing application of artificial intelligence (AI) is set to help doctors make earlier diagnoses of mental health problems in children and potentially change the course of their lives.
The journey towards preventing type 1 diabetes
Ocean is one of many diabetic patients taking part in ground breaking research and care at Addenbrooke's, to help find ways of preventing the condition.
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.
"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'.
Cash boost awarded to ground-breaking study aimed at finding new treatments for rare cancer in young people
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.