Birmingham Children's Hospital

Infobox Hospital
Name = Birmingham Childrens Hospital
Org/Group = Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Caption = Birmingham Children's Hospital

Location =
Region = Birmingham
State =
Country = England
Coordinates = coord|52|29|5.1|N|1|53|38|W|type:landmark|scale:1000|region:GB|display=inline,title
HealthCare = NHS
Type = Specialist
Speciality = Children's hospital,
CAMHS (mental health)
Standards =
Emergency = Yes
Affiliation= University of Birmingham
Beds = 300
Founded = 1862
Closed =
Website = http://www.bch.org.uk/
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The Birmingham Children's Hospital, previously 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.

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."Children in Hospital - A Hundred Years of Child Care in Birmingham", Rachel Waterhouse, Hutchinson & Co., 1962] 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 near 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 as one of 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. [ [http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=1356 "RPS designs the Birmingham children's Hospital Burns Unit in Birmingham"] - World Architecture News, 30 August 2007 (Retrieved 1 September 2007)]

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.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is Internationally recognised as one of the best of such centres in the World.

The Birmingham Children's Hospital is a Grade A locally listed building.

References

* [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1999/19990370.htm the Birmingham Children's Hospital National Health Service Trust (Establishment) Amendment Order 1999] (Statutory Instrument assigning name)