Friends and family open day

Name: Friends and family open day
Start: 2025-03-23T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-23T15:00:00+00:00
Location: Royal Papworth Hospital

Schedule

Sun Mar 23 2025 at 10:00 am to 03:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Royal Papworth Hospital | Cambridge, EN

Come and explore Royal Papworth Hospital - one of the world's leading heart, lung and sleep hospitals - as part of the Cambridge Festival 2025.
At this family friendly event you can meet our teams, explore the equipment involved in providing world class heart and lung medicine, immerse yourself in our pop-up operating theatre and enjoy a number of other interactive stands, all in and around our hospital atrium!
Tickets are free but must be pre-booked.
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalpapworthhospitalnhsfoundationtrust/1574493
To help us manage footfall, please arrive during the time slot indicated on you ticket. You will be able to stay beyond your ticket time.
Visitors can:
- Visit our pop-up operating theatre
- Discover some of the equipment used by staff in our critical care team
- Youngsters can bring their teddy along to our teddy bear clinic
- Learn CPR and then take part in an interactive ambulance game
- Enjoy learning about some of the high-tech devices and exercises used by our allied health professionals
- Explore the heart's anatomy with our echocardiography physiologists
- See different pacemaker devices through the ages and learn their function with our cardiac physiologists
- Participate in a one-minute walk test with our respiratory physiologists
- Test how clean your hands are with our infection control team
- Learn more about Royal Papworth Charity and how it supports our hospital and staff
- ...and much more!