Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust runs two major hospitals in the city: Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of only two dedicated women’s hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year.
It provides a range of specialist health care services to more than 50,000 women, men and families each year and offers a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care. Their Fertility Centre is one of the best in the country and they are proud to be an international centre for education, research and development,
The city centre-based Children’s Hospital is a leading UK specialist paediatric centre to more than 90,000 children and young people from across the country every year. They are world leading in some of the most advanced treatments, complex surgical procedures and cutting-edge research and development.
It has a national liver and small bowel transplant centre and are a global centre of excellence for complex heart conditions, the treatment of burns, cancer and liver and kidney disease.
It is a national designated specialist centre for epilepsy surgery and boast a paediatric major trauma centre for the West Midlands.
It is also home to one of the largest Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in the country, with a dedicated inpatient Eating Disorder Unit and Acute Assessment Unit for regional referrals of children and young people with the most serious of problems (Tier 4) and our Forward Thinking Birmingham community mental health service for 0-25 year olds.