Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
The new Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, March 2011
Location within West Midlands
Geography
Location	Edgbaston, Birmingham, England
Coordinates	52°27′06.08″N 1°56′35.06″W / 52.4516889°N 1.9430722°W / 52.4516889; -1.9430722
Organisation
Care system	National Health Service
Affiliated university	University of Birmingham
Services
Emergency department	Yes - Major Trauma Centre
Beds	1,215
History
Opened	16 June 2010; 14 years ago (2010-06-16)
Links
Website	www.uhb.nhs.uk
Lists	Hospitals in England

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham is a major, 1,215 bed, tertiary NHS and military hospital in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, situated very close to the University of Birmingham. The hospital, which cost £545 million to construct, opened on 16 June 2010, replacing the previous Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Selly Oak Hospital. It is one of the largest single-site hospitals in the United Kingdom and is part of one of the largest teaching trusts in England.^[1]

It is named after Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, who was queen consort and wife of King George VI from 1936 until his death in 1952.

The hospital provides a whole range of services including secondary services for its local population and regional and national services for the people of the West Midlands and beyond. The hospital has the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe. It has the largest renal transplant programme in the United Kingdom^[2] and it is a national specialist centre for liver, heart and lung transplantation, as well as cancer studies. The hospital has the largest single-floor critical care unit in the world with 100 beds, and is the home of the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine for military personnel injured in conflict zones.