Cambridge University Hospitals

The Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the United Kingdom's NHS foundation trusts. It was originally named Addenbrooke's NHS Trust. It became a foundation trust and was renamed in 2004.

The Trust provides healthcare for people in the Cambridge area, in southeast England, and specialist services such as transplantation, treatment of rare cancers and neurological intensive care for a much wider area. It runs Addenbrooke's Hospital, the Rosie Hospital, and Saffron Walden Community Hospital. It is one of the Shelford Group an informal organisation of ten leading English University Teaching Hospitals and part of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

The Trust is part of the UnitingCare Partnership, a consortium with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. In September 2014, the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough clinical commissioning group announced that the partnership was the preferred bidder for an £800 million contract to deliver older people’s health services in Cambridgeshire beginning in April 2015. The goal is for a single lead provider to be responsible for older people’s healthcare services and adult community health services, to better coordinate and improve this aspect of healthcare throughout the region.

Keith McNeil the chief executive is a one-time special forces sniper and a former transplant physician, who moved to the hospital from Brisbane. He resigned in September 2015 following a Care Quality Commission Report which put the hospital into special measures.

As part of its eHospital transformation, the trust installed an Epic Systems electronic health record system in 2014, which together with a Hewlett-Packard infrastructure transformation, will cost the Trust £200 million over 10 years. The Epic implementation is the first end-to-end deployment of Epic in Europe, as well as the first Epic implementation in the UK. 2.1 million records were transferred to it and it went live on 26 October. In the weeks after Go-Live, it experienced significant teething problems. There were particular problems with communicating pathology results with both the new Epic system and the system used by The Pathology Partnership, the newly formed joint venture pathology provider. The trust reported ongoing issues with pathology codes and reporting leading to difficulty matching test results to patients, requiring re-checking. “GPs were asked to stop all routine blood tests at short notice; patients were attending their GP surgery for blood tests and had to be turned away. Some tests that had already been taken had to be discarded and GPs had to repeat them. The trust has apologised to GPs’ patients and The Pathology Partnership has written to GPs giving details of the 200 patients affected". Chief information officer, Dr Afzal Chaudhry, said "well over 90% of implementation [had] proceeded successfully".

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