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Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

At a glance...

Who are we?

• We are part of the NHS (National Health Service), which

has provided free healthcare in the UK for 70 years!

• In 2017, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and

Birmingham Women’s Hospital became one institution: Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust.

• Ours is the first Trust of its kind in the UK to bring

together women's and children's care like this.

• We have
• 2 hospitals with 31 wards and 480 beds in total
• 1 mental health service for 0-25s (Forward Thinking

Birmingham)

Who are we?

• We are not just an NHS Trust, but a Foundation
• Trust. That means we have more independence

to make our own decisions about what kind of care we provide and how we spend our money in

• rder to provide it.
• Our income in 2017/18 was £429 million
• That year, it cost £411 million to run the Trust!
• Anyone who lives in England and is over 10

years old can become a member of our Trust and have a say in how it's run.

Who works here?

• Our Chief Executive Officer is

Sarah-Jane Marsh

• Our Trust employs over 6,000 staff, all

working together to provide the best possible care to thousands of patients each year.

• Some of the best surgeons, doctors,

nurses, midwives and other healthcare professionals in the UK, and even in the world work here!

• Around 15% of our workforce are non-

healthcare staff: cleaners, IT professionals, cooks, librarians, and many others.

Who works here?

• Around 83% of the people who work for us

are female.

• We have close to 1,000 volunteers who help

to make our Trust a better place:

• Adults and young people
• In-hospital, at home and elsewhere
• Long-term and project-based (like you!)

Over 200 Junior Volunteers aged 10-16 took on projects for us between July 2018 and April 2019

Who do we help?

• Our patients come from Birmingham, around

the UK and even from other countries!

• During 2017/18, we had
• 355,917 times when people came to

'outpatient' appointments (attended and went home)

• 48,069 times when people were admitted

as 'inpatients' (were kept in hospital)

• 59,564 visits to our Emergency Department

Who do we help?

• We're the busiest single-site Maternity Unit

in the UK!

• In 2017/18, we had 8,381 births
• We have 17 delivery room beds and 5

Birth Centre beds

• We also have 41 neonatal cots and look

after 9,500 neonatal babies every year

• We have 74 parent rooms available so that

parents can stay close to their children when they come to hospital

• We have the largest single Paediatric

Intensive Care Unit in the UK with 31 beds

We did it first...

World firsts:

• We fit a pacemaker into a three-day old baby.
• We separated twins conjoined at the spine.

UK firsts:

• We successfully treated two patients with over 90% burns.
• We did a triple transplant (liver, pancreas and small bowel)

for Adele. European firsts:

• We rebuilt a missing section of Rosie's spine with metal rods.

NHS firsts:

• We created a Friends and Family Feedback App.
• We launched a mental health service for 0-25s.
• We launched a 10-16s volunteering programme!

Adele Chapman Rosie Davies

Welcome to the team

• By volunteering for us, you have

become part of our team!

• Every one of our Junior Volunteers

plays a role in helping us to achieve the high standards of care for women, children and families that we're known for.

• Thank you for your help today!