The facility will be the first specialist children’s hospital in the East of England – the only region in the UK currently without one.
The five-storey building will include 108 inpatient beds, 16 paediatric intensive care beds, 42 day-case beds, seven operating theatres, imaging and diagnostics and a hospital school alongside a new research institute.
Prof Isobel Heyman, clinical co-lead for mental health for Cambridge Children’s Hospital, said: “This truly is an exciting moment for the project. We are bringing specialist care closer to home so children and families across the East of England will have better, more equitable access to the care they need – with less time away from school, home and community.”