About the Trust
Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides a comprehensive service to children, young people and their families.
We are one of the leading paediatric teaching centres in the country, with international research and development in areas such as:
- Childhood cancer studies
- Liver disease
- Infection, inflammation and immunity
- Molecular genetics of childhood conditions (how these are passed on, and how they cause disease in the body in terms of chemistry)
- Nutrition, growth and metabolism in childhood
- Drug use in children
- Relapsed and refractory acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
- Infant neuroblastoma
- Infant brain tumours
Facilities include:
- A 20 bedded Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
- A centre of excellence for children with cancer cardiac, liver and renal disease
- A national transplant centre
- 280 inpatient and day-case beds including Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- 38 specialties and supporting departments
- An Emergency Department dealing with over 45,000 patients a year
- Nine theatres
- Two MRI scanners
- A CT Scanner
- An endoscopy suite
- A catheter laboratory with digital imaging facility
- Burn, Neonatal Surgery and Education Centre
- Wellcome Clinical Research Facility
- Renal Unit
- Teenage Cancer Trust Unit
- Ronald McDonald House (parent and family accommodation).
Location:
The main hospital site is on Steelhouse Lane. See maps and directions and parking.
There is a second owned site located at Parkview in Moseley, which hosts one of largest Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the country, including an Acute Assessment Unit for Tier 4 regional referrals (for those with the most serious problems).
We also provide services from a range of accommodation in the community owned by Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and in several partner organizations who provide short-term care.
