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PAPWORTH HOSPITAL. By Ruth McErlane . Papworth Hospital. Heart and lung hospital. Home to the first successful heart transplant in the UK. Home to one of the world’s first beating – heart transplants. Services it provides are cardiology, respiratory medicine and cardiac thoracic surgery.
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PAPWORTH HOSPITAL By Ruth McErlane.
Papworth Hospital. • Heart and lung hospital. • Home to the first successful heart transplant in the UK. • Home to one of the world’s first beating – heart transplants. • Services it provides are cardiology, respiratory medicine and cardiac thoracic surgery. • Leading hospital in researching heart arrythmias.
Papworth Hospital. • “As a physician I came to heal, and in helping I became more…a tradesman, a manufacturer, a financier, a sociologist and an administrator. And no one has helped me more than many of the men I tried to help.” Sir PendrillVarrier-Jones (1883-1941) - physician, social pioneer and founder of Papworth Village Settlement. • Originally the hospital was mainly for tuberculosis before World War 1. • Helped people to return to work after convalescence, Varrier-Jones believed in the recuperating properties of fresh fruit and vegetables and fresh air. • As part of recuperating helped patients be involved in local manufacturing including early manufacturing of the Green Goddess Fire Engines. • Opened in 1917 and Varrier-Jones wanted the hospital and surrounding area to have a real feel of community.
Papworth Hospital. • Located in the village of PapworthEverard, 10 miles west of Cambridge. • I did what is known as the “Papworth Experience”. • That involved doing an elective there for 4 weeks and staying in nurses’s accommodation while I was there. • I did many shifts in all different areas in the hospital. • I worked in:- i) Cardiac Outpatients. ii) Theatres. iii)Thoracic Outpatients. iv) Critical Care Area. v) Hemingford Ward/HDU vi) Radiology. vii) Princess Ward (Thoracic) viii) Cystic Fibrosis Unit. ix) Cardiac Rehab.
