Training Experience Required
Medical degree with internship training. Must be eligible for registration with the General Medical Council in the UK. Please see the GMC website here.
General Description
Addenbrooke's is a centre of medical excellence. As an internationally known university teaching hospital, it is a natural centre for specialist services dealing with rare or complex conditions needing the most modern facilities, up-to-date treatment and the best doctors.
Many of the hospital's specialists are leaders in their fields. This means that care is of the highest standard and that local patients benefit from having this concentration of medical expertise on their doorstep.
Through Addenbrooke's, the Trust provides emergency, surgical and medical services for people living in the Cambridge area as well as being a centre of excellence for regional specialist services for organ transplantation, cancer, neurosciences, paediatrics and genetics.
Thirteen directorates are responsible for the delivery of clinical care through 51 specialties with the support of clinical diagnostic departments and therapy services. All this is supported by a corporate infrastructure of IT, finance, human resources, estates and facilities, corporate development and management, patient services and administration.
Expertise
We treat cancers of solid organs. We offer a highly integrated approach to the management of both common and rare cancers.
We provide a service to more than 4,000 new patients each year, from East Anglia and beyond. We are a very busy centre: in 2010, 2,020 individual patients were commenced on chemotherapy and over 11,000 treatments were administered.
Our chemotherapy service functions both as a local service for Cambridgeshire and a specialist service for the Anglia Cancer Network (ACN) and beyond. We receive referrals from across our region as well as nationally.
We treat en extensive range of cancers, including: Biliary tract, Bladder, Bowel, Brain, Breast, Gynaecological, Haematological, Head and Neck, Kidney, Lung, Neuroendocrine, Oesophagus and stomach, Paediatric, Pancreas, Primary liver, Prostate, Sarcoma, Skin.
We have expertise in the use of all of the common types of treatment and most of the more specialist ones.
Facilities
We have very close links with the University of Cambridge Department of Oncology and Haematology. Many of our staff work for both the hospital and the university. This ensures that the high-quality cancer care we offer, is underpinned by excellent research.
We offer a large number of ground breaking new treatments within clinical trials. Addenbrooke's is the hub of the West Anglia Cancer Research Networks and accounts for over two thirds of its activity.
In 2012, 1,649 patients treated in our Cancer Centre took part in 169 different clinical trials.
In March 2012, we launched two new and exciting developments to our service. We opened a new ward (C9) to to treat young patients between the ages of 16 and 24 years in an appropriate environment. Our nursing team set up a new service, delivering chemotherapy in two GP practices on a weekly basis, enabling some patients to be treated closer to home.
Outreach chemotherapy service: treating patients closer to home.
Addenbrooke's Hospital is also uniquely positioned within the expanding Cambridge Biomedical Campus that is home to Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, large biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, and the University of Cambridge itself.
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the European Bioinformatics Institute are also located within the wider Cambridge area. This thriving biomedical environment serves as a phenomenal research and training environment for advancing research and discovery in oncology.
