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NCCU

Neurosciences Critical Care Unit (NCCU)

The NCCU at Addenbrooke's is:

  • the biggest of its kind in Europe
  • world renowned for its state-of-the-art monitoring of brain injuries
  • the only NCCU in the world to be located alongside the modern scanning facilities of the Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre
  • one of the leaders in Clinical Neuroscience Research
  • works closely with the nearby Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair

By combining treatment and research these facilities ensure seriously ill patients get the best possible care.

NCCU

Fundraising

Over 700 patients are admitted to the unit each year, not only from the surrounding area of East Anglia but also from some parts of the UK and the rest of the world.

NCCU is constantly trying to offer the best possible service to the patients and their relatives.

Any donation you can make to the NCCU will help to buy items of equipment for patient care, research and project work or for general refurbishment of the unit.

CT scanner

The Neurosciences Department are hoping to raise £254,000 for a state-of-the-art CereTom portable CT scanner, which will be used on NCCU, on wards and in theatres.

"It will allow head scans to be performed by the bedside, saving time and reducing the hazards of taking very sick patients to a static facility. It is urgently required." Mr Kirkpatrick, Consultant Neurosurgeon.

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Keith Griffiths

Mr Keith Griffiths from Spalding, Lincolnshire raised £550 for the NCCU through a golfing challenge.

Mr Griffiths was a patient in NCCU in 2006 and wanted to say thank you to Addenbrooke's for saving his life.

In his captaincy at Tydd Golf and Country Club in Cambridgeshire, Mr Griffiths set a challenge for players – anyone whose ball went into the lake had to give a donation to NCCU.