Birmingham City Hospital

Name :

Birmingham City Hospital

Address  :

Dudley Road

Town  :

Birmingham

State  :

West Midlands

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

B18 7QH

Phone  :

0121 554 3801

Web URL  :

Available

Email  :

forename.surname@swbh.nhs.uk

Description

About Us
The Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the United Kingdom with a reputation for excellent friendly staff who provide high quality care from City Hospital in Birmingham and Sandwell General in West Bromwich Both are busy acute hospitals providing many specialist services and a broad range of emergency services including Accident amp Emergency at both sites In addition the Trust provides comprehensive community services to the Sandwell area including from Rowley Regis Community Hospital Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre and the Lyng Centre for Health and Social Care

The Trust has an income of pound415 million and employs around 7000 WTE staff It has circa 1000 beds and serves a population of over 500000

The Trust is a key partner along with local PCTs GPs and local authorities in the Right Care Right Here programme which seeks to deliver an ambitious redevelopment of local health services This has the backing of the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority and has been approved as a national priority scheme by the Department of Health Following a very successful public consultation implementation of the programme is underway with a wide range of secondary care services now being provided via new models of care in community locations The programme includes one of the largest investments in the UK in new facilities in both the acute and community sectors Included within this is a brand new state of the art acute hospital which has both DH business case approval and planning permission The new hospital is set to open in 2016 This will create some of the largest clinical teams in the country on a single site

The Trusts current strategy focuses on the period leading up to the new hospital with an emphasis on driving clinical integration by reconfiguration of services between the existing sites strengthening key specialties and on quality and productivity improvement In the light of its strategic operational and financial strength the Trust is applying to become a NHS Foundation Trust

The Trust is a pioneer in developing new and more effective approaches to staff engagement through its Listening into Action programme which harnesses the energy and ideas of front line staff to improve services This is the largest programme of its kind in the NHS and has received widespread national recognition

The pound35m Birmingham Treatment Centre on the City Hospital site provides stateoftheart facilities for onestop diagnosis and treatment It includes an Ambulatory Surgical Unit with six theatres extensive imaging facilities an integrated breast care centre and teaching accommodation

The pound18m Emergency Services Centre on the Sandwell site incorporates a comprehensive AampE facility Emergency Assessment Unit and Cardiac Care Unit

The Trust hosts the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre which is a supraregional specialist facility as well as the PanBirmingham Gynaecological Oncology Centre Birmingham Skin Centre Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre and regional base of the National Poisons Information Service

Aside from being one of the largest providers of patient services in the Midlands the Trust also has a substantial teaching and research agenda with several academic departments including rheumatology ophthalmology cardiology gynaecological oncology and neurology

Our Trust is a teaching hospital of the University of Birmingham School of Medicine and we deliver undergraduate and specialist education for nurses and professions allied to medicine in conjunction with the University of Birmingham the University of Wolverhampton and Birmingham City University We are accredited as a centre for NVQ training and offer vocational education to local employers as well as to our own staff

Our Vision
Our vision is to help improve the health and wellbeing of people in Sandwell western Birmingham and surrounding areas working with our partners to provide the highest quality healthcare in hospital and closer to home

Our Values
Caring and Compassionate
We see patients carers and relatives as individuals and listen to their needs

We care for patients their carers and relatives as they want us to

We treat all our patients with dignity and respect

Accessible and Responsive
We make our services accessible to everyone

We are responsive to the different needs of the patients and communities that we serve

We involve patients in decisions about their care

Professional and Knowledgeable
We provide safe high quality services

We pride ourselves on our professionalism in all we do

We strive to get the basics right and continually improve our services

Open and Accountable
We are open about what we do

We respect the position of trust we are in

We are accountable to patients and local people for the decisions we take and the services we provide

Engaging and Empowering
We value the experience and knowledge of all our staff and listen to their ideas

We work together across boundaries to provide the very best care

We provide an environment in which staff can flourish and grow