Agenda and Papers for Public Board Meeting June 2013

CAMHS TIER 4 RECONFIGURATION
Business Case
2. B AC KG ROU ND TO T HE B U SI NE S S C ASE
2.1 B i rmi n gh am Chi l d r e n’s H os pi t al N HS F o und a ti on T ru s t
Established as the Birmingham and Midland Free Hospital in 1862 on the Steelhouse Lane
site, Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (“BCHFT”) has been offering
medical and surgical services to children for 150 years. It provides general Paediatric care
for south and central Birmingham, as well as being a regional, national and international
centre for specialised treatments, with an international reputation in several areas. It has
circa 230 beds - excluding Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) - on the
main Steelhouse Lane site.
In addition to this, the Trust has one of the largest CAMHS services in the Country. This
consists of multi-disciplinary Community based services for the city of Birmingham as
commissioned by the local CCGs and other partner organisations, an inpatient facility with
three units on the Parkview site in Moseley and an additional unit on the Steelhouse Lane
site.
2.2 CA M HS
BCHFT provides inpatient (Tier 4) services – and associated outpatient / day care facilities - to
children and young people from across the West Midlands footprint, in additional to children
from outside this area.
The majority of the service is located at the Parkview clinic in Mosley, which provides 34
beds. Historically, there has been a further 10 beds provided at the Steelhouse Lane site on
Ocean Ward giving a total occupancy of 44 beds. However, the capacity has been recently
reduced to provide 5 beds on this site giving a current total of 39 beds.
Therefore the current bed configuration underpinning this Business Case is as follows:
Steelhouse Lane
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Inpatient facility for children and younger adolescents with 5 beds currently in use, for
children aged between 5 – 18 years old – the only CAMHS unit that admits children of
primary school age.
Parkview Clinic
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The Acute Assessment Unit on the Ashfield Ward, with 8 beds;
The Eating Disorders Unit on Irwin Ward, with 12 beds; and
General Adolescents on Heathlands ward, with 14 beds.
In addition to the above, BCHFT provides tertiary CAMHS services which includes hospital
play specialists, Paediatric psychology and liaison psychiatry.
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