Nurses Day! - Birmingham Children's Hospital

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Who we are and what we do
Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides the widest range of children’s health
services for young patients from Birmingham, the West Midlands and beyond, with over 240,000 patient
visits every year.
We are a nationally designated specialist centre for epilepsy surgery and a trauma centre for the West
Midlands, a national transplant centre, and a centre of excellence for complex heart conditions, the
treatment of burns, cancer, and liver and kidney disease. We also have one of the largest Child and
Adolescent Mental Health Services in the country with a dedicated Eating Disorder Unit and Acute
Assessment Unit for regional referrals of children and young people with the most serious problems (Tier 4).
Our hospital has:
l 354 beds across 22 wards at Steelhouse Lane
and our Child and Adolescent Mental Health
(CAMHS) site at Parkview;
l 34 specialties (including liver transplant surgery,
cardiac surgery, burns, major trauma,
craniofacial surgery, blood and marrow
transplantation, specialised respiratory and
dermatology, neurology, cystic fibrosis, Child and
Adolescent Mental Health Services);
l 11 Nationally Commissioned Services;
l 12 theatres (including our Hybrid and
Laparoscopic theatres);
l £3.7m 3T MRI scanner which supports
pioneering research into brain tumours in
children;
l 150,000 outpatient visits a year;
l 50,000 Emergency Department patients a year;
l 39,000 inpatient admissions to hospital each year;
l 61 parent and family accommodation rooms –
the largest facility in Europe;
l KIDS regional emergency transport service;
l Wellcome Clinical Research Facility;
l 26 bedded PICU (to increase to 31 next year);
l £233m annual income;
l 3,330 staff.
Education
As one of the UK’s leading paediatric teaching
centres we go to great lengths to target, teach,
nurture and develop the skills of our present and
future workforce, to enable access to training and
education and to foster life-long learning. Our aim
is that all staff are appropriately equipped and
qualified for the work they do and continue to learn
and develop in their time with us. We continually
examine our practice and look at ways to innovate
and improve the service we all deliver so that our
children, young people and families receive a firstclass
service.
Research
Research is a fundamental part of what we do
at the hospital and we are leading the way with
pioneering international research into:
l Childhood cancer;
l Inherited metabolic disorders / rare diseases;
l Liver disease;
l Infection, inflammation and immunity;
l Nutrition, growth and metabolism in childhood;
l Drug use in children;
l Relapsed and refractory acute lymphoblastic
leukaemia;
l Infant neuroblastoma; Infant brain tumours.