Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham
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The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is an NHS hospital in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham situated very close to the University of Birmingham. It is one of the two hospitals in the University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, the other being Selly Oak Hospital.
It is named after Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.
The hospital provides a whole range of services including secondary services for its local population and regional and national services for the people of the West Midlands and beyond. The hospital has the largest renal transplant programme in the UK, is a major specialist centre for liver, heart and lung transplantation, neuroscience and a specialist cancer centre.
There are plans to replace it with a new hospital on the current site. This is due for completion by 2010 [1].
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