: Health Hinge

Howden Health Centre, located within the hospital grounds, provides services such as health and welfare clinics to registered patients.

In 2006 it was reported that the hospital had been using their main incinerator to burn aborted foetuses younger than 24 weeks, those older than 24 weeks were disposed of at a crematorium, a practice that was criticised by the Church of England and the Royal College of Nursing, as well as by pro-life groups.[8]

Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT) is the independent registered charity for Addenbrooke’s Hospital and its associated hospitals. Its aim is to support and promote the work of Addenbrooke’s for the benefit of patients and staff, by raising extra funds to enhance services, facilities and research. ACT is based on site in the Post Graduate Medical Centre opposite A&E.

The hospital holds a free open day every two years allowing members of the public to visit areas of the hospital which would usually be inaccessible. The tours are colour coded according to the areas of the hospital they involve. Some of the tours available include:
The Basement Tour (Blue) - Takes place on a moving tug in the basement service corridors, and involves listening to various facts about the hospital buildings and equipment.
The Mortuary Tour (Red) - Involves a visit to the hospital’s mortuary, with information about the various processes used after death.
The Pathology Tour (Purple) - A tour of the pathology laboratories, learning about the causes and treatments of disease.
The Sky Tour (Light Blue) - Takes place on the hospital roof, mainly giving information about the surrounding buildings and services.
The Theatre Tour (Green) - Involves a visit to one of the operating theatres, learning about the procedures and equipment used during surgery.

Plans are in place to build a new Children’s Hospital on the Addenbrooke’s site near to where the current Rosie Maternity hospital is located. Designs and plans will be drawn up over the next two years, with building expected to begin at the end of the decade. It is expected to open in 2013.[7]

Addenbrooke’s provides a full range of clinical services, with the exception of cardiothoracic surgery, which is provided at the nearby Papworth Hospital. Psychiatric services are split between Addenbrooke’s and Fulbourn Hospital. Addenbrooke’s is a tertiary referral centre for a number of specialities. Of note, it is one of the UK’s six liver transplant centres and performs multivisceral transplants. It is a busy regional neurosurgical centre and has the largest neurological intensive care unit of its kind in Europe. It is also a centre of excellence for renal services, bone marrow transplantation, cleft lip and palate reconstruction, treatment of rare cancers, medical genetics, and paediatrics. It has 24 operating theatres, and in addition to the neurological critical care unit it also has an adult, a paediatric, and a neonatal intensive care service, and several high-dependency areas (adult, transplant, surgical, coronary care). The Rosie Maternity Hospital is attached to Addenbrooke’s, and provides a full range of women’s and maternity services.

In 2006, Addenbrooke’s had 1,087 beds, 5,400 members of staff, and a budget of £304 million. It treated approximately 60,000 visits to Accident & Emergency, 55,000 inpatients stays, and 370,000 outpatient clinic visits.

In recent years, the Addenbrooke’s site has almost become a self-contained town. The hospital has its own airport-style shopping concourse (part of which remains open till late), food court, sports centre, and accommodation units. The shopping concourse was a notable first, being opened in 1989 and extensively refurbished and extended in 1999. Many more research organisations are now moving in too, as Addenbrooke’s continues to evolve into a fully-fledged biotechnology campus.

Addenbrooke’s Hospital is a large teaching hospital in Cambridge, England, with strong links to the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1766 on Trumpington Street with £4,500 from the will of Dr John Addenbrooke, a fellow of St Catharine’s College.[1] This building is now the Judge Business School. In 1976, the hospital moved to its present premises on the southern edge of the city, and is now part of the Cambridge Bio-Medical campus. For a long time, this site was known as New Addenbrooke’s, and still is by people who worked in the old one.

St John’s Hospital is very well linked by public transport in the area, with most buses within Livingston calling at St John’s at some point in their route. It has links with Uphall, Broxburn, all parts of Livingston, Pumpherston, Mid Calder, East Calder, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Airport, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Ocean Terminal Linlithgow, Bathgate and more.

It is just a short walk from Livingston North train station, which provides links to Bathgate and Edinburgh.

It has a large car park which will have it’s parking charges abolished at the end of 2008.

Howden Health Centre, located within the hospital grounds, provides services such as health and welfare clinics to registered patients.