Nuffield Health Cambridge Hospital is a private hospital in
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a List of cities in the United Kingdom, city and non-metropolitan district in the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It is the county town of Cambridgeshire and is located on the River Cam, north of London. As of the 2021 Unit ...
, England.
History
The facility was founded by C Morland Agnew as the Evelyn Nursing Home in 1921.
Agnew was motivated to establish the nursing home after his wife, Evelyn, had been poorly treated in another nursing home.
[ Following a programme of modernisation initiated by Agnew's grandson, Julian, in 1974, which allowed the facility to specialise in acute medical and surgical cases, it was renamed the Evelyn Hospital in 1983.][ After the site was acquired by ]Nuffield Health
Nuffield Health is the United Kingdom's largest healthcare charity. Established in 1957 the charity operates 31 Nuffield Health Hospitals and 112 Nuffield Health Fitness & Wellbeing Centres. It is independent of the National Health Service and i ...
in 2003,[ a new extension, built at a cost of £30 million, was opened in July 2015.]
Services
In 2016 it was the first hospital ever to be classed overall as "outstanding" by the Care Quality Commission
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom. It was established in 2009 to regulate and inspect health and social care providers in England. It ...
.
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Hospitals in Cambridgeshire
Private hospitals in the United Kingdom
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