ADDENBROOKE'S HOSPITAL, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Addenbrooke's Hospital was named after Dr John Addenbrooke (1680-1719). He entered St Catharine's College, Cambridge (then Catharine Hall) in 1697 and was ultimately Bursar of the College from 1709-1710. He then lived and practised medicine in London for a number of years before returning to Cambridgeshire. He died in 1719 and was buried in the Chapel of St Catharine's. In his will he left his money, about £4,500, to found a "small physicall hospital for poor people" after a life interest to his widow. St Catharine's College acted as Trustees and the Hospital finally opened to patients on Monday 13 October 1766. It was one of the earliest Voluntary General Hospitals to be opened outside London. There were no major benefactions in the early years and the hospital relied entirely on voluntary subscriptions. By 1775 these included subscriptions from beyond the immediate Cambridge area. The original building was on Trumpington Street in Cambridge. It underwent considerable expansion in the early 19thcent. thanks to a bequest from John Bowtell, a Cambridge bookbinder and bookseller. The buildings were then enlarged and largely reconstructed, 1864-65, to designs drawn up by George Humphry and the architect Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt. George Humphry, Surgeon to the Hospital 1842-94, and George Paget, Physician to the Hospital 1839-84, were both instrumental in the development of Addenbrooke's and in the 19th century rise of the Cambridge Medical School. In 1948 Addenbrooke's became part of the United Cambridge Hospitals, whose Board of Governors was responsible, until 1974, for Addenbrooke's together with Mill Road Maternity Hospital, Brookfields Hospital, Chesterton Hospital and The Hunstanton Home of Recovery. In 1959 work began on the site of the new Addenbrooke's buildings on Hills Road, Cambridge. Stage I of the new buildings was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 May 1962, the main ward block was topped out in 1970, and Stage II was completed in 1972. "Old" Addenbrooke's and "New" Addenbrooke's ran in tandem until the 1980s: the last patient was moved from the old buildings in Oct 1984 and they were finally closed in 1985. They were refurbished in the 1990s and are now occupied by Cambridge University's Judge Institute of Management Studies. Addenbrooke's Hospital and Fulbourn Hospital combined to form Addenbrooke's NHS Trust in 1993. Fulbourn Hospital left the Trust in 2002 to become part of a new Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust.

The Addenbrooke's Hospital archive includes the following: administrative records from 1766 onwards, including annual reports, minutes of the Governors, committee records and financial records; patient records (the earliest surviving case records date from 1876); nursing records; press cuttings; photographs; and staff magazines. In addition to the archives of Addenbrooke's Hospital itself, records of related organisations such as other Cambridge hospitals (particularly those of the United Cambridge Hospitals) and medical and nursing associations are also held. These are listed at AHRO (Records of Related Organisations).

Access is allowed, by appointment only, to bona fide researchers on production of ID. Patient records less than 100 years old are not available for general access.

Please cite as Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, ADDENBROOKE'S HOSPITAL, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, AH

Arthur Rook, Margaret Carlton and W Graham Cannon, "The History of Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge", Cambridge University Press 1991. Fulton Gillespie, "About Addenbrooke's", Addenbrooke's NHS Trust July 2000.

The archives of Fulbourn Hospital are held at Cambs. County Record Office, Shire Hall, Cambridge and at Fulbourn Hospital itself.