** About Us **
The Trust is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the United Kingdom with a reputation for excellent, friendly staff who provide high quality care from City Hospital in Birmingham and Sandwell General in West Bromwich. Both are busy acute hospitals providing many specialist services and a broad range of emergency services, including Accident & Emergency at both sites. In addition, the Trust provides comprehensive community services to the Sandwell area, including from Rowley Regis Community Hospital, Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre and the Lyng Centre for Health and Social Care.
The Trust has an income of £415 million and employs around 7000 WTE staff. It has circa 1000 beds and serves a population of over 500,000
The Trust is a key partner along with local PCTs, GPs and local authorities in the “Right Care Right Here” programme which seeks to deliver an ambitious redevelopment of local health services. This has the backing of the West Midlands Strategic Health Authority and has been approved as a national priority scheme by the Department of Health. Following a very successful public consultation, implementation of the programme is underway with a wide range of secondary care services now being provided via new models of care in community locations. The programme includes one of the largest investments in the UK in new facilities in both the acute and community sectors. Included within this is a brand new state of the art acute hospital which has both DH business case approval and planning permission. The new hospital is set to open in 2016. This will create some of the largest clinical teams in the country on a single site.
The Trust’s current strategy focuses on the period leading up to the new hospital with an emphasis on driving clinical integration by reconfiguration of services between the existing sites, strengthening key specialties and on quality and productivity improvement. In the light of its strategic, operational and financial strength the Trust is applying to become a NHS Foundation Trust.
The Trust is a pioneer in developing new and more effective approaches to staff engagement through its “Listening into Action” programme which harnesses the energy and ideas of front line staff to improve services. This is the largest programme of its kind in the NHS and has received widespread national recognition.
The £35m Birmingham Treatment Centre on the City Hospital site provides state-of-the-art facilities for one-stop diagnosis and treatment. It includes an Ambulatory Surgical Unit with six theatres, extensive imaging facilities, an integrated breast care centre and teaching accommodation.
The £18m Emergency Services Centre on the Sandwell site incorporates a comprehensive A&E facility, Emergency Assessment Unit and Cardiac Care Unit.
The Trust hosts the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre which is a supra-regional specialist facility, as well as the Pan-Birmingham Gynaecological Oncology Centre, Birmingham Skin Centre, Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre and regional base of the National Poisons Information Service.
Aside from being one of the largest providers of patient services in the Midlands, the Trust also has a substantial teaching and research agenda with several academic departments including rheumatology, ophthalmology, cardiology, gynaecological oncology and neurology.
Our Trust is a teaching hospital of the University of Birmingham School of Medicine and we deliver undergraduate and specialist education for nurses and professions allied to medicine in conjunction with the University of Birmingham, the University of Wolverhampton and Birmingham City University. We are accredited as a centre for NVQ training and offer vocational education to local employers as well as to our own staff.
** Our Vision **
Our vision is to help improve the health and wellbeing of people in Sandwell, western Birmingham and surrounding areas, working with our partners to provide the highest quality healthcare in hospital and closer to home.
** Our Values **
Caring and Compassionate
We see patients, carers and relatives as individuals and listen to their needs.
We care for patients, their carers and relatives as they want us to.
We treat all our patients with dignity and respect.
Accessible and Responsive
We make our services accessible to everyone
We are responsive to the different needs of the patients and communities that we serve.
We involve patients in decisions about their care.
Professional and Knowledgeable
We provide safe high quality services
We pride ourselves on our professionalism in all we do.
We strive to get the basics right and continually improve our services.
Open and Accountable
We are open about what we do.
We respect the position of trust we are in.
We are accountable to patients and local people for the decisions we take and the services we provide.
Engaging and Empowering
We value the experience and knowledge of all our staff and listen to their ideas.
We work together across boundaries to provide the very best care.
We provide an environment in which staff can flourish and grow.
