Clinical excellence

Our team of experts deliver world-class care to women, children and families locally, regionally and nationally, every day of the week. From fixing babies' hearts that are no bigger than a 50p piece to delivering more than 8,000 babies every year, to brain surgery that offers a life free from epileptic fits - what we do changes lives forever.

We have one of the busiest children’s hospitals in the country, providing the widest range of children’s health services for young patients from Birmingham, the West Midlands and beyond, with more than 270,000 patient visits every year.

Our women’s hospital is a centre of excellence, providing a range of specialist healthcare services to more than 50,000 women and their families every year from Birmingham, the West Midlands and beyond.

We host the national miscarriage research centre and are a national centre for epilepsy surgery, liver and small bowel transplants and a centre of excellence for complex heart conditions, burns, cancer treatment, as well as liver and kidney disease. Our fertility centre is one of the best in the country and we are a leading major trauma centre for the West Midlands. We are also home to the largest mental health service in the country – Forward Thinking Birmingham.

We have a great history of innovation:

World first to insert a pacemaker into a three-day-old baby
World first to separate twins conjoined at the spine
First National, and Europe’s largest, research centre dedicated to reducing miscarriage rates
UK first to successfully treat two patients with over 90% burns
First UK triple transplant of liver, pancreas and small bowel
First in Europe to rebuild a section of missing spine with metal rods
First to use Formula 1 racing technology in £1.8m patient research study

Awards and achievements:

Our Extracorporeal Life Support team was awarded a prestigious global ‘Excellence in Life Support’ accolade by the USA’s Extracorporeal Life Support Organization
The Guardian Public Service Award 'Digital Excellence Winner 2013'
We were awarded 'Public Sector PR Week Award 2013' for our real-time patient feedback app
Association of Healthcare Communications and Marketing Awards (AHCM): Best Use of Innovation in Communications 2014
Chief Nursing Officer’s Summit: Right Staff, Right Skills Award 2014
Health Service Journal ‘Best Place to Work 2014’
Health Service Journal Award finalist: Staff Engagement 2014
Health Service Journal 100 Best Places to Work and Top 50 Acute Trusts 2014
Health Service Journal ‘Provider Trust of the Year Winner 2015'
The Charles Beale Award for Policy Advancement at the 2017 University of Birmingham’s Founder’s Awards for Excellence. Given to our Consultant Gynaecologist for advancing research into maternal mortality reduction in developing countries

Education

We go to great lengths to identify, teach, nurture and develop the skills of our present and future workforce, to enable access to clinical and non-clinical training and education 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 during their time with us. We continually look for ways to innovate and improve the service we all deliver so that our women, children and families receive a first-class service.