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.
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“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 Pendrill Varrier-Jones (18831941) - 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, VarrierJones 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.
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Opened in 1917 and Varrier-Jones wanted the hospital and surrounding
area to have a real feel of community.
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Located in the village of Papworth Everard, 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.