Birmingham Children's Hospital
| Birmingham Children's Hospital | |
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| Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Birmingham, England |
| Coordinates | 52°29′5.1″N 1°53′38″W / 52.484750°N 1.89389°WCoordinates: 52°29′5.1″N 1°53′38″W / 52.484750°N 1.89389°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Hospital type | Specialist |
| Affiliated university | University of Birmingham |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes |
| Beds | 300 |
| Speciality |
Children's hospital, CAMHS (mental health) |
| History | |
| Founded | 1862 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, runs Birmingham Children's Hospital, a children's hospital located in Birmingham, England. It also provides Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) for the city.
It provides general and emergency health care services to children in Birmingham, the West Midlands and beyond. It specialises in liver transplantation, cardiac, neonatal surgery, burns treatment, renal care and leukeamia research. Birmingham Children's also hosts the West Midlands Regional Centre for Cleft Lip and Palate, providing a multidisciplinary service for cleft patients, including speech & language therapy, dental, orthodontics, maxillofacial, plastic surgery and psychology. It is currently the only hospital in the UK to carry out intestinal transplants in children.
The Birmingham Children's Hospital is a Grade A locally listed building.
A helicopter landing pad is marked near the road in front of the hospital. When it is used, police officers encircle the area and prevent vehicles from moving along the road until the helicopter has departed and the patient taken into the hospital.
In 2007, a new extension designed by RPS Group was opened. The modern extension houses a burns unit, one of three such centres of excellence in the country. As well as this, it contains an outpatients department, a neo-natal Unit, a burns ward and 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.
A brand-new £1 million research facility has been built at the Hospital, in a joint venture with The Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility. The Hospital also hosts a Teenage Cancer Trust ward build jointly with the TCT.
The trust leads a consortium of organisations called Forward Thinking Birmingham which has been 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 Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
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