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University Hospital Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust runs the
Queen Elizabeth and Selly Oak Hospitals in South Birmingham. With more
than 6,900 staff, UHB is the leading teaching hospital in the West Midlands.
The Trust provides the full range of hospital services and treats 500,000
patients each year.
In June 2006 UHB got the go ahead to build Birmingham�s first new acute hospital
in 70 years. The first phase of the new hospital will be open in 2010. It will
be fully operational by June 2012.
It is one of the highest performing and most successful trusts in the NHS and
has been given the maximum three stars for the past four consecutive years.
We have 6700 employees, whose vast expertise deliver high quality care to
more than half a million patients every year. Patient treatments range from
a single outpatient appointment to a heart transplant.
Services
The Trust 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 Trust has the largest renal kidney
programme in the UK, is a major specialist centre for burns and plastic surgery,
hand surgery, neuroscience and specialist cancer centre.
The Trust also hosts the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, which provides medical
support to military operational deployments. It also provides secondary and
specialist care for members of the armed forces.
The Birmingham Hand Centre based at this Trust has 9 Consultant Hand Surgeons from
Orthopaedic and Plastic surgery root specialities. We provide a comprehensive hand
surgery service inclusive of Brachial Plexus Surgery, Complex microsurgical
reconstructions and complex Wrist reconstructions for trauma and diseases.
Education
We are the leading teaching hospital in the West Midlands and have strong teaching
and research links with Birmingham University,
the University of Central England
and other academic institutions. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is sited adjacent to
the University of Birmingham campus directly linked to the Medical School buildings.
The geographical proximity of the Trust and the Medical School and the multidisciplinary
environment that exists in both, reinforce working arrangements and provide the
background for continuing strength.
Foundation Status
We are in the first wave of NHS Foundation Trusts,
and are in the process of building
Birmingham�s first new general hospital for 70 years.
The New Hospital Project is the
second largest hospital building project in the country, and when the new hospital
opens in 2010/12 our staff and the people of Birmingham will have access to one of
the most modern healthcare facilities in Europe. The new hospital will see an improvement
in quality of healthcare delivery resulting from the benefits of single site working
and from the use of modern, attractive, purpose-built facilities which, in turn, would
secure the Trust�s position as the major provider of secondary and tertiary services
within the West Midlands.
Workforce
UHB is one of Birmingham�s largest employers in Birmingham and it is committed to
improving the
working lives of all its staff. The new hospital will create 2,000
construction jobs and additional healthcare jobs. It is vital that we have a well
motivated workforce, reflective of the communities we serve,
recruit the new staff
we need and provide appropriate, sensitive patient care.
For further information contact:
Mr Vaikunthan Rajaratnam
MBBS(Mal),FRCS(Ed),FRCS(Glasg),FICS(USA),MBA(USA),Dip Hand Surgery(Eur)
Consultant Hand Surgeon
Birmingham Hand Center
University Hospital Birmingham
NHS Foundation Trust
United Kingdom
Phone +44 (0) 121685400 ext 55399
Fax: +44 (0) 1216854041
E-Mail:
Vraj@rcsed.ac.uk
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