Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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The Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) is one of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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's 79 NHS Foundation Trusts.
The Trust provides healthcare for people in the Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...

 area, in southeast England
England
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. It runs Addenbrooke's Hospital
Addenbrooke's Hospital
Addenbrooke's Hospital is an internationally renowned teaching hospital in Cambridge, England, with strong links to the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1766 on Trumpington Street with £4,500 from the will of Dr John Addenbrooke, a fellow of St Catharine's College...

 and the Rosie Hospital.

Addenbrooke's Hospital, on the southern outskirts of Cambridge, which has an income of £518 million, has around 1,180 beds and employs over 7,000 staff. The Rosie Hospital, adjacent to Addenbrooke's, is the 120-bed maternity and women's hospital with its own theatre suite, fetal assessment unit, ultrasound department and neonatal intensive care unit. It is the regional centre of excellence for maternity care with around 5,000 babies born there each year. Besides being a major healthcare provider, the Hospital is also a site for world-class medical research, with the Medical Research Council
Medical Research Council (UK)
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 and the Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust was established in 1936 as an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health. With an endowment of around £13.9 billion, it is the United Kingdom's largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research...

, and provides clinical education for medical students from the nearby University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

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