Ministers have approved plans for a specialist children's hospital in Cambridge.
Cambridge Children's Hospital has now been given the green light to appoint a contractor, to build the ground-breaking new facility in 2026.
Groundworks were completed in July 2024, and new access roads have been installed where the five-storey, 35,000sqm hospital will be built, on the Addenbrooke's campus.
Staff have said the hospital will be designed to bring mental and physical health care together for children and young people.
Dr Rob Heuschkel, Clinical Lead for Physical Health at Cambridge Children’s Hospital:
"A huge amount of work has gone into finalising the designs and getting us to this point, and I want to thank our healthcare staff, young people and their families from across the region who have been contributing valuable feedback and helping us shape our plans, right from the very start.
"We are absolutely delighted that we can now move forward to enter contracts with a construction partner, so we can finally start to see work happening on site.
"The East of England is the only region in the UK without a specialist children’s hospital, and we look forward to changing that very soon."
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