University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Type	NHS Foundation Trust
Region served	West Midlands
Hospitals	Good Hope Hospital Heartlands Hospital Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Solihull Hospital
Chair	Dame Yve Buckland
Chief executive	Jonathan Brotherton [1]
Website	www.uhb.nhs.uk

The University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust provides adult district general hospital services for Birmingham as well as specialist treatments for the West Midlands.

The trust operates the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Edgbaston (QEHB), adjacent to its older namesake and connected to it by a footbridge. QEHB began receiving patients at its Emergency Department on 16 June 2010, and replaced Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Selly Oak Hospital. The trust is under the leadership of Chair Dame Yve Buckland and chief executive Jonathan Brotherton ^[1] On 30 June 2004, the Trust received authorisation to become one of the first NHS Foundation Trusts in England, under the leadership of ex-chief executive Dame Julie Moore, who succeeded Mark Britnell.^[2] From 2006 to November 2013 the Chair of the Trust was Sir Albert Bore. Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith took over as chair in December 2013.^[3]

On 1 April 2018 it merged with the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust. The combined organisation will^{[needs update]} have a turnover of £1.6bn and 2,700 beds across four main hospitals.^[4]

All the executive directors are white. There has not been a director who was not white in the last 20 years^[when?] though more than 40% of the city's population is from a black, Asian or ethnic minority background. In 2017 36% of the trust's overall workforce were from a BAME background and in 2020 about half the medical staff.^[5]