Plans for a new £2.3bn acute hospital for part of Cambridgeshire seeing rapid population growth have been described as ambitious but necessary.
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH), which operates Addenbrooke's Hospital, says that by 2040 it will need double the number of beds it currently has, and an emergency department five or six times the size.
It is already short of about 160 acute beds, and the new "radical" plans would offer more community support and would ideally see people attend hospital only for emergencies or specialist care that cannot be delivered locally