Birmingham Women's Hospital

Birmingham Women's Hospital

The Birmingham Women's Hospital (Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust) is an NHS hospital in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, situated very close to the University of Birmingham. The Trust is a Centre of Excellence for specialist health care to women and their families in Birmingham and the West Midlands.

Established in 1994, it is one of only two trusts in the UK specialising in women's health care. They provide a focused range of health care services, primarily, though not exclusively to women and their families.These are:
*Maternity and Fetal medicine services
*Neonatal care
*Fertility services, see separate entry for the Assisted Conception Unit
*Gynaecology
*Regional clinical and laboratory genetics
*Imaging and pathology services.

The trust has strong links to all the regional universities, playing a leading role in medical education, training, research and development.

Based in Edgbaston, adjacent to the University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, there are around 150 adult beds and 43 neonatal cots and an annual income of £70 million. On average 50,000 patients a year are cared for, with approximately 3000 operations and delivery of around 7,000 babies. Alongside Core Services, the trust hosts host two region-wide partnerships: the Cancer Intelligence Unit and the West Midlands Public Health Observatory. They also host the NHS National Genetics Education and Development Centre.

As a specialist teaching healthcare trust, the focus is on delivering five distinct but inter-related clinical services. Brought together, these services combine to offer secondary local services to women, men and babies living in South Birmingham and tertiary services throughout the West Midlands and beyond.

On February 1 2008, the trust was officially granted NHS Foundation Trust Status.

Chief Executive, Julie Burgess commented, "This is fantastic news for the organisation, we have been looking forward to hearing this news and it's great that we have made it. The journey for the Trust is about to begin, and we are looking forward to sharing our future with our members, of which there are over 3,000. Being an NHS Foundation Trust will be of benefit to our communities as we will be able to invest in services which best suit the needs of our patient groups."

External links

* [http://www.bwhct.nhs.uk Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust]


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