Birmingham Children's Hospital
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| Birmingham Children's Hospital Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
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| Birmingham Children's Hospital | |
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| Place | Birmingham, (England) |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: |
| Organisation | |
| Care System | NHS |
| Hospital Type | Specialist |
| Affiliated University | University of Birmingham |
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| Emergency Dept. | Yes |
| Beds | 300 |
| Speciality | Children's hospital, CAMHS (mental health) |
| History | |
| Founded | 1862 |
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| Website | Homepage |
| See also | Hospitals in England |
The Birmingham Children's Hospital, now known as The Diana, Princess of Wales Children's Hospital, is a children's hospital located in Birmingham, England.
It provides general and emergency health care services to children in Birmingham, the West Midlands and beyond. It specialises in liver transplantation, cardiac, and neonatal surgery. Birmingham Children's also hosts the West Midlands Regional Centre for Cleft Lip and Palate, providing a mulitidiscipliary service for cleft patients, including speech & language therapy, dental, orthodontics, maxillofacial, plastic surgery and psychology. It is currently the only hospital in the UK to carry out intestinal transplants in children.
[edit] Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
The hospital is managed by the Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The Trust also provides Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) for the city.
It opened in 1862 as the Birmingham and Midland Free Hospital for Sick Children at 138-9 Steelhouse Lane.[1] It moved to a new site on Ladywood Road in 1917. In 1998 the hospital returned to Steelhouse Lane, to the buildings previously used by the General Hospital.
A helicopter landing pad is marked on the road in front of the hospital. This is rarely used, however when it is, police officers encircle the area and prevent vehicles from moving along the road until the helicopter has been removed and the patient taken into the hospital.
The Hospital treats over 140,000 children a year from all over the UK, and is regarded among the best children's hospitals in Europe.
In 2007, a new extension designed by RPS Group was opened. The modern extension houses a burns unit, one of three such centres of excellence in the country. As well as this, it contains an outpatients department, a neo-natal Unit, a burns ward and a burns operating theatre, as well as additional classrooms for the Education Centre, allowing children to continue their education whilst undergoing medium to long term care in the hospital.[2]
Currently a proposed brand-new £1 million research facility is to be built at the Hospital, in a joint venture with The Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility.
The Birmingham Children's Hospital is a Grade A locally listed building.
[edit] References
- ^ Children in Hospital - A Hundred Years of Child Care in Birmingham, Rachel Waterhouse, Hutchinson & Co., 1962
- ^ RPS designs the Birmingham children's Hospital Burns Unit in Birmingham - World Architecture News, 30 August 2007 (Retrieved 1 September 2007)
- the Birmingham Children's Hospital National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1999 (Statutory Instrument assigning name)
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