Birmingham Children's Hospital is a specialist children's hospital located in

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, England. The hospital provides a range of specialist services and operates the

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(CAMHS) for the city. The service operates as part of

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust The Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for managing Birmingham Women's Hospital and Birmingham Children's Hospital. It was created by a merger of Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust with Birmingham Childr ...

, whose CEO is Sarah-Jane Marsh.

History

The hospital was founded by Thomas Pretious Heslop as the ''Birmingham and Midland Free Hospital for Sick Children'' at 138–9 Steelhouse Lane in 1862.''Children in Hospital - A Hundred Years of Child Care in Birmingham'', Rachel Waterhouse, Hutchinson & Co., 1962 It moved to a new site on Ladywood Middleway in 1917. In March 1986, a charity concert was held called "

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" at the nearby National Exhibition Centre, featuring

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, which raised money for the hospital. In October 1998 the hospital returned to Steelhouse Lane, to the buildings previously used by the Birmingham General Hospital, as the Diana, Princess of Wales Children's Hospital - in honour of

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, who had died the year before. The opening ceremony was carried out by

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. In 2007, a new extension designed by RPS Group was opened. The extension created a burns unit, one of three such centres of excellence in the country. As well as this, it established an outpatients department, a neonatal ward, 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.

Facilities

The trust led a consortium of organisations called Forward Thinking Birmingham commissioned to provide mental health services for young people in the city up to the age of 25 from April 2016. Services for adults were previously provided by

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. In 1970, surgeons completed the first separation of conjoined twins at the hospital.

Management

The hospital was managed by the Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Trust until 2017 when it merged with the Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to create the

. The current chair of the trust is Sir Bruce Keogh and Chief Executive Sarah-Jane Marsh. She was appointed Chief Executive of

Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust ran Birmingham Women's Hospital in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, situated very close to the University of Birmingham. On 1 February 2008, it was granted NHS Foundation Trust Status. It m ...

with effect from 1 July 2015 and now runs the

Performance

The trust was named by the

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as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 3236 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.39%. 89% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 74% recommended it as a place to work. The Trust's Professor Anita Macdonald, Consultant Paediatric

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was awarded an OBE for services to Dietetics in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2015. In 2016, it became the first children's hospital to be rated Outstanding by the

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References

External links

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

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