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About us
Who we are
Royal Papworth Charity exists to support the vital work of Royal Papworth Hospital, a specialist heart and lung hospital in Cambridge.
Today, we care for around 50,000 patients each year, perform more heart and lung transplants than any other UK centre and have the best survival rates in the UK for cardiac surgery. The Hospital treats some of the most life threatening conditions affecting people today and the grants provided by Royal Papworth Charity help to ensure the hospital is able to remain at the forefront of heart and lung disease research internationally.
The location of the Hospital on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus provides the UK with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to develop a world-class research institute for heart and lung disease (HLRI) in partnership with the University of Cambridge expanding opportunities on which the treatments of tomorrow will be based. This facility is due to open in 2022.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) announced on the 16th October 2019 that it has rated Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as ‘outstanding’ overall, and across all five of the CQC domains; safe, caring, effective, responsive, and well-led.
This is the first time ever that an NHS hospital trust has achieved an ‘outstanding’ rating across the five key questions that the CQC asks when it inspects hospitals. It is also the first NHS acute Trust to have gained an ‘outstanding’ rating in the ‘Safe’ category.
Royal Papworth Charity provides grants to support the hospital in a variety of ways which helped achieve the outstanding rating across all five domains. We are committed to raising vital funds to provide the very best for our patients, their families and our staff and with your support we can make an even greater difference.
