University Hospital Zurich
Raemistrasse 100 Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland)
German Hospital Service
Destouchesstr. 1 Munchen, Bayern (Germany)
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust
162 City Road London, Greater London (UK)
Flinders Medical Centre
Flinders Drive, Bedford Park South Australia (Australia)
Selly Oak Hospital (acute)
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- Anaesthesiology
- Cardiology
- Daibetes, Endocrinology
- Dermatology
- Plastic Surgery
Description
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is the leading university teaching hospital in the West Midlands It is one of the mostconsistently highest performing trusts in the NHS and has been rated quotexcellentquot for financial management and quotgoodquot for quality of clinical and nonclinical services for the past three years by the Healthcare Commission
The Trust runs two hospitals the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Selly Oak Hospital which provide adult services to more than half a million patients every year from a single outpatient appointment to a heart transplant The Trust is a regional centre for cancer trauma burns and plastics and has the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe
The Trust employs around 6900 staff and is currently building Birminghams first new acute hospital in 70 years The pound545 million hospital will open its doors to patients in the Summer of 2010
Our Vision
To deliver the best in care
Our Purpose
To provide leading edge healthcare for the people and communities we serve locally nationally and internationally by delivering excellence in patient care through clinical expertise research innovation teaching training and support services
Our values
Respect
We respect each other at all times with regard to age disability gender position race religion and sexual orientation through professionalism and courtesy treating all patients colleagues visitors carers communities and others as they would wish to be treated
Responsibility
We take personal and collective responsibility to do the best we can working towards agreed individual and Trustwide goals and expect to be held accountable and to challenge poor performance
Honesty
We are open have integrity and are inclusive in our engagement and our decision processes
Innovation
We strive to be responsive creative and flexible always looking for ways to do things better We trial new ideas and share best practice quickly and fully
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