Two new hospitals are set to be built and another refurbished in Cambridge. At the other end of the A10, the roof of a crumbling building has to be held up by props to stop it falling in on patients. Chris Bishop asks why.
Punctuated by the occasional scream of ambulance sirens, the rumble of construction equipment drifts across the fields south of Cambridge from Addenbrooke's Hospital.
A children's hospital, a cancer hospital and a rebuild of the main site are all in the pipeline. The Cambridge University Hospitals Trust says the new builds will have "really positive impacts for patients across the region as a whole".
The children's hospital will care for young people across the east when it opens in 2025. A new children's ambulance service is being launched across Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to transport patients.
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The cancer hospital, which the trust says will change the way cancers are detected and treated, was one of 40 new hospitals announced by the government in October 2020 as part of a 3.7bn health infrastructure plan.
Also included were rebuilds of the James Paget Hospital, at Gorleston and the West Suffolk Hospital, at Bury St Edmunds.
Of the West Suffolk, the Department of Health and Social Care's press release said the West Suffolk rebuild would "replace poor estate and provide a better patient environment".
Both it and the James Paget were so-called Best Buy hospitals, built from prefabricated sections in the...
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