Duke of Gloucester opens Trust's new Resource Centre
The new Resource Centre at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust has been opened by the Duke of Gloucester.
His Royal Highness was met at the Trust’s Fulbourn Hospital site by Chief Executive Anna Hills and Interim Chair Eileen Milner.
The Duke was accompanied by CPFT’s former chair Julie Spence who had arranged the visit - which took place on Wednesday, 19 July - in her capacity as Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.
The Resource Centre, which was completed earlier this year following a 12-month building programme, is home to a number of teams including music, art, and drama therapy, pharmacy, and the Heart & Soul chaplaincy service.
At more than 1,200 square metres, the two-storey building – which replaced the previous Resource Centre on the site – has a gym for service-users who are being cared for at the Trust’s mental health wards for adults and older people at the hospital site.
There are also physio and occupational therapy areas along with offices, meeting rooms and a branch of The EDGE Café which is open to staff, patients and visitors from Monday to Saturday.
In a speech before the Duke unveiled a special plaque at the building, Chief Executive Anna Hills said: “We are very proud of the work we do as a Trust – in mental health, community nursing, children’s services, learning disability, and research.
“Our staff are at the centre of thousands of people’s lives, and they put their patients are the very centre of everything they do.
“In turn, this building is central to our colleagues - they work here and can also take a few minutes to enjoy a very welcome break.
“To get to this point has taken the vision and expertise of our Estates team, the architects, the builders, along with our staff who told us what they wanted and needed from their new home.
“Thank you to everyone who worked so tirelessly to turn what was once just an idea into such a spectacular reality.
In his speech, the Duke said he was delighted to be told that the Resource Centre, built by Morgan Sindall Construction, had re-used buildings previously on the former Royal Papworth Hospital site.
An outside seating area and some of the landscaping next to the Resource Centre has been funded by CPFT’s Head To Toe charity.
As well as touring the Resource Centre and meeting staff and patients, the Duke also visited the Trust’s Windsor Research Unit which is also on the Fulbourn Hospital site.
One of the UK’s top performing mental health research units, the team who work there support hundreds of studies and help thousands of volunteers access new treatments and therapies every year.
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For more information contact:
Andy Burrows
Deputy Head of Communications
E andy.burrows@cpft.nhs.uk
