Past, Present, Future
Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Trust provides a wide range of general and specialist health services to children and adolescents within the West Midlands and beyond. As Birmingham's lead provider of health services for children, the hospital NHS Trust enjoys a national and international reputation in specialist areas including liver transplantation, cardiac surgery and neonatal surgery. Providing one of only two centres in the UK, the liver unit is the designated centre for small bowel transplantation, whilst the heart unit leads the field in congenital heart disease. The Trust also manages city-wide Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).
The state-of-the-art radiology department houses CT and MRI scanners whilst a 20-bed Intensive Treatment Unit is the single largest paediatric resource in the UK, alongside the country's largest oncology unit for children.
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Ambition statement
“Caring for Children, Young People and their Families”
Our Core Purpose:
To lead exceptional services for the health and well being of every child and young person
Our Core Values:
We are Focused on, Caring for and Committed to children and young people.
Our Audacious Goals:
The West Midlands will have the healthiest children and young people in the UK
We will be the partner of choice
Children and young people will be healthy, protected, educated and treated with respect
We will be an international leader of children and young people’s healthcare
1862
Birmingham and Midland Free hospital opened in Steelhouse Lane. In the first month, January, just 2 children were admitted. In February 16 children were admitted - filling all of the 16 beds the hospital had.
1869
A new outpatients department was constructed on the corner of Upper Priory and Steelhouse Lane to expand services for the ever increasing number of outpatients
1877
The construction of an isolation block was completed in Broad Street. The block consisted of two six-bedded scarlet fever wards, and a four-bedded diphtheria ward.
1907
It was obvious that the children's hospital had outgrown its premises so the governors resolved to build a completely new hospital. A promising 2 1/2 acre site was found in Ladywood Road, and an appeal launched to raise funds to build a new hospital.
1913
The foundation stone at the Ladywood site was laid by HRH Princess Louise first, Duchess of Argyll.
1914
World War I frustrated plans for the new building at Ladywood.
1917
The first outpatients finally arrived on Christmas Eve to late occupancy of a partially completed building.
1919
On 21st May King George V and Queen Mary visited the new hospital and toured the wards for an hour. Their majesties, by all accounts, were most impressed.
1926
Birmingham Children's Hospital became the 1st hospital to treat a child with rickets by administering cholesterol to supply the necessary vitamins.
1937
The first stone of a new Babies Block was laid. As babies could not be taken into the main wards because of the risk of infection, the building of a Babies Block was a necessity.
1941
The Babies Block was finally completed as construction had been slowed due to World War II. It was officially christened the Leonard Parsons block after the physician who had worked at the hospital since 1910.
1946
Leonard Parsons retired from Birmingham Children's Hospital and was knighted for his contribution to paediatric medicine.
1948
The NHS Trust was established and the Children's Hospital became part of the Teaching Group of Birmingham United Hospitals.
1957
Demands for a new hospital began as the Sanatorium type hospital was no longer suitable for the complex medical services of the second half of the twentieth century.
1998
More than 130 years later the hospital returned to the site of its first home in Steelhouse Lane. The relocation into the former General Hospital has built a foundation for the hospital to be the leading centre of excellence in the provision of child healthcare, both in the hospital and in the community.
1999
The Trust was chosen to manage the city-wide Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, drawing together diverse services from four other city NHS Trusts 2000 Following a national review of cleft lip and palate disorders in the West Midlands, the first regional centre to be chosen in England and Wales.
2001
The Children's Hospital became the 'hub' service for paediatric burns for the West Midlands.
Birmingham Children’s Hospital has plans. Which will transform the present city-centre site into one of the most powerful and iconic developments for children in Europe. This only reflects the City itself: Birmingham has the youngest population of any city in Europe. The future being mapped out, and for which building work has already begun, aims to keep Birmingham Children’s Hospital at the heart of Birmingham and the Midlands, as a place for children and realised with them.
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