UHB facts

• University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust runs two hospitals, the
Queen Elizabeth and Selly Oak, which are situated 1.5 miles apart in South
Birmingham.

• Achieved Foundation Trust status on July 1, 2004

• UHB has around 23,500 members and a Board of Governors

• The annual budget in 2009/10 was £496.2 million

• Staff of 6,900 people working across more than 40 disciplines

• Provides traditional district general hospital services for the adult population of
South Birmingham and specialist acute treatments for people in the West Midlands
and beyond.

• Regional centre for trauma, burns, plastics, neurosciences and cancer

• UHB has the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe

• UHB has been rated ‘excellent’ for clinical care and ‘excellent’ for financial
management by the Care Quality Commission (2009/10)

• UHB is in the top 10% of best performing trusts in the country

• UHB’s infection rates reduced by over 60% (MRSA) and over 50% (C.diff) in
2009/10. Our senior managers and nurses ‘walk the floor’, sometimes with
members of the public, to make sure hygiene is of the highest standard.

• UHB has some of the shortest waiting times in the UK

• 98% of patients are seen and treated within four hours in A&E at UHB

• In 2009/10 UHB saw nearly half a million outpatients, 67,000 inpatients, 32,000
daycases, and 83,000 A&E attendances – a total of 681,496 patients treated

• UHB is the leading teaching hospital in the West Midlands, with strong links to
the University of Birmingham.

• UHB is the major provider of NHS Research and Development in the West
Midlands.

• Birmingham was the first designated Cancer Research UK Centre in the UK

• Birmingham is bidding to become one of the first centres in the UK to deliver a
new cutting-edge cancer treatment called proton therapy

• UHB hosts the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM). UHB is also proud
to host the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM). The RCDM, based at
Selly Oak Hospital, provides dedicated training for defence personnel and is a
focus for medical research. UHB also holds the contract for providing medical
services to military personnel evacuated from overseas via the aero medical
service. UHB is one of only a small number of hospitals that can provide the full
range of medical specialties – trauma, burns, plastics, orthopaedics, neurosurgery,
critical care - needed to treat the complex nature of conflict injuries, all under one
roof.

• The pioneering techniques in surgery and pain control that we have developed
at Selly Oak whilst treating military patients are recognised worldwide. These
techniques are now being used for civilian surgery in the UK and elsewhere.