Cambridge Festival

Come and explore Royal Papworth Hospital - one of the world's leading heart, lung and sleep hospitals - as part of the Cambridge Festival 2025. 

You can meet our teams, explore the equipment involved in providing world class heart and lung medicine, have a play in a mini operating theatre and enjoy a number of other interactive stands!

Family friendly. Most suitable for older children, teenagers and adults.

How to get here

For information on how to get to our hospital, please visit: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/our-hospital/getting-here

Infection control

Please do not attend if you have had symptoms of diarrhoea or vomiting in the past 48 hours. 

Please do not attend if you have symptoms of COVID-19 or flu. 

Please note

To manage footfall, please arrive during the time slot indicated on your ticket. You are able to stay beyond your ticket time. 

You will need to give your name and email address at the time of booking. This is to provide you with a copy of the ticket to attend the event and allows us to contact you should we need to cancel the event at short notice.  

Any data stored will be deleted after the event. 

We are a smoke free site. No smoking or vaping is allowed in the premises or anywhere on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Facilities

Food and drink will be available to buy from our on-site restaurant or WH Smith store.

Toilets, including accessible toilets, are available on the ground floor of our hospital.