Birmingham Children's Hospital
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| Birmingham Children's Hospital | |
| Location | |
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| Place | Birmingham, England, (UK) |
| Organisation | |
| Care System | Public NHS |
| Hospital Type | Specialist |
| Affiliated University | Unknown |
| Services | |
| Emergency Dept. | Yes Accident & Emergency |
| Beds | 300 |
| Speciality | Children's hospital, CAMHS (mental health) |
| History | |
| Founded | 1862 |
| Links | |
| Website | Homepage |
| See also | Hospitals in England |
Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust manage the central Birmingham hospital now also known as The Diana, Princess of Wales Children's Hospital, which provides general and emergency health care services to children in Birmingham, the West Midlands and beyond. It specialises in liver transplantation, cardiac, and neonatal surgery. Birmingham Children's also hosts the West Midlands Regional Centre for Cleft Lip and Palate, providing a mulitidiscipliary service for cleft patients, including speech & language therapy, dental, orthodontics, maxillofacial, plastic surgery and psychology.
The Trust also provides Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) for the city.
As the Birmingham and Midland Free hospital it opened in Steelhouse Lane in 1862. It moved to a new site in Ladywood Road in 1917. In 1998 the hospital returned to its original site, previously used as the General Hospital, in Steelhouse Lane.
A helicopter landing pad is marked on the road in front of the hospital. This is rarely used however when it is, police officers encircle the area and prevent vehicles from moving along the road until the helicopter has been removed and the patient taken into the hospital.
The Children's Hospital is a Grade A locally listed building.
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