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The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham is a major, 1,215 bed, tertiary NHS and military hospital in the
Edgbaston Edgbaston () is an affluent suburban area of central Birmingham, England, historically in Warwickshire, and curved around the southwest of the city centre. In the 19th century, the area was under the control of the Gough-Calthorpe family ...
area of
Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the We ...
, situated very close to the
University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...
. The hospital, which cost £545 million to construct, opened on 16 June 2010, replacing the previous Queen Elizabeth Hospital and
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. It is one of the largest single-site hospitals in the United Kingdom and is part of one of the largest teaching trusts in England. It is named after
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, who was queen consort and wife of
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from 1936 until his death in 1952. The hospital provides a whole range of services including secondary services for its local population and regional and national services for the people of the West Midlands and beyond. The hospital has the largest solid
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programme in Europe. It has the largest renal transplant programme in the United Kingdom and it is a national specialist centre for liver, heart and lung transplantation, as well as cancer studies. The hospital has the largest single-floor
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in the world with 100 beds, and is the home of the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine for military personnel injured in conflict zones.


History


Origins

A variety of charitable hospitals opened in Birmingham between 1817, when the Orthopaedic Hospital opened, and 1881, when the Skin Hospital served its first patients. One of these, Queens Hospital, established in 1840 by a young local surgeon
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, was predominantly for clinical instruction for the medical students of Birmingham. In 1884 these institutions, including Cox's medical school, united as part of Mason College, which later became the
University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...
. The original Queen Elizabeth Hospital was an NHS hospital in the
Edgbaston Edgbaston () is an affluent suburban area of central Birmingham, England, historically in Warwickshire, and curved around the southwest of the city centre. In the 19th century, the area was under the control of the Gough-Calthorpe family ...
area of
Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the We ...
situated very close to the
University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...
. The building ultimately cost £1,029,057, which was £129,406 less than the money raised by donations."Clocking Out" display boards at Open Day, QE Hospital 6 November 2010 (based on information provided to the Histories Project by
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, the Your Lives project and others)


The new hospital

The new hospital was built adjacent to the old Queen Elizabeth Hospital site. It was built to replace the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Selly Oak Hospital, although it incorporated some of the newer parts of the old Queen Elizabeth Hospital. It was named the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, rather than the originally planned name of Birmingham Queen Elizabeth Hospital, as the
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ruled that no word can precede a Royal Title. The new hospital was part of a £1 billion urban regeneration plan for Bournbrook and
Selly Oak Selly Oak is an industrial and residential area in south-west Birmingham, England. The area gives its name to Selly Oak ward and includes the neighbourhoods of: Bournbrook, Selly Park, and Ten Acres. The adjoining wards of Edgbaston and Harbor ...
which included the construction of a £350 million retail development and the construction of the Selly Oak bypass. Proposals for the new hospital were unveiled in 1998 and the outline design, which was unveiled in January 2004, was approved by
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in October 2004. It was the first acute hospital to be built in Birmingham since 1937. The new hospital was procured under a
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contract with Consort Healthcare signed in early 2006.'PFI fears could scupper hospital'
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The hospital was designed by
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and construction, which was undertaken by
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at a cost of £545 million, began in June 2006. Five Liebherr 280 EC tower cranes were used during construction. Three of the cranes were among the tallest free-standing structures in the UK. One of the cranes was at its maximum free-standing height, under the hook and could lift 12 t at or 4.9 t at . The other two cranes stood at . The finished complex comprised three 63-metre-tall towers, each 9 stories tall. A sky-bridge was erected between one of the towers and the retained estate allowing access to the departments of
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, the
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and the Wellcome Research Centre. As well as providing patient care, provision was made for an education centre and retail outlets. Services from Selly Oak hospital moved in during the week beginning 16 June 2010, and services from the old Queen Elizabeth Hospital finished moving in November 2011. This allowed simplification of operation due to two hospitals being relocated to one single site, which has the same capacity as the two previous hospitals combined. The hospital is part of the
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust The University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust provides adult district general hospital services for Birmingham as well as specialist treatments for the West Midlands. The trust operates the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Edgbaston ( ...
, one of the largest teaching trusts in the country and a member of the
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collaboration of the ten largest teaching and research NHS hospital trusts in England. It also hosts the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre.


Services

The hospital has 1,215 patient beds including capacity for 100 critical care beds – largest single-floor unit in the world. It also has six MRI scanners, five CT scanners, four gamma camera/SPECT-CT systems, eight ultrasound rooms, five fluoroscopy rooms and five interventional radiology suites. The hospital is the new home of the 'Royal Centre for Defence Medicine', which cares for injured service men and women from conflict zones, as well as training
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,
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and
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medical staff.Military Care at new Birmingham Hospital
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Notable patients

Those reported to have been treated there include: * Schoolgirl and education activist
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was flown in from
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to receive treatment at the hospital after being shot in the head by the
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in an incident which she earned plaudits across the world for her bravery and determination in recovery. *
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, who raised millions of pounds for the
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, died aged 19 from
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at the hospital on 19 May 2014.


Notable incidents

A nurse at the hospital was suspended from the medical register in 2013 when a panel at the
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proved more than 70 charges of incompetency. A surgeon used an argon beam machine to write his initials on the organs of the anaesthetised patients in 2013. In 2016 the death rate among patients receiving cardiac surgery was found to be above average for the nation. Among other criticisms it was suggested a bullying culture has prevented staff voicing concerns.


Performance

As of October 2021 the
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rated the Queen Elizabeth Hospital overall as "requires improvement".Overview and CQC Inspections
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See also

* Babatunde Kwaku Adadevoh *
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*
Birmingham Women's Hospital Birmingham Women's Hospital is a women's hospital which is located directly opposite The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England. It is managed by Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust. History The first Birmingham mat ...
- Located adjacent to the hospital *
List of hospitals in England The following is a list of hospitals in England. For NHS trusts, see the list of NHS Trusts. East Midlands * Arnold Lodge, Leicestershire * Babington Hospital – Belper, Derbyshire *Bassetlaw District General Hospital – Worksop, Nottingha ...


References


External links


University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

NIHR Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre
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