The New QEHB

University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

2010. Enormous progress has already been made behind the scenes with key decisions mapping the future of healthcare in Birmingham and beyond. Consort Healthcare (Birmingham) has overall responsibility for financing, designing, building and managing the new hospital and in turn has commissioned lead contractor Balfour Beatty Construction. The £545 million project is so huge it will

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have taken around 15 years to come to fruition – from the initial consultation and planning on designs to the last phase of the scheme being completed. It will be the first acute hospital in Britain’s second city for 70 years.

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very day counts as teams of staff plan the fine details which will ensure the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) is open for business on June 16th

The iconic QEHB has 1,213 beds, the

largest critical care unit in Europe and 30 operating theatres, including seven dedicated day case theatres. Thanks to all this, and more, University Hospital Birmingham is in a position to achieve some of the shortest waiting times in Britain. Around 44 % of in-patient beds are in single rooms, with the rest in four-bed wards. All rooms have en-suite bathrooms. Trust Chief Executive Julie Moore said, “Crucially, for the first time all of our services will be under one roof, helping our emergency services and, in particular, providing care precisely when and where it is required. “It is a hospital built to the very latest

healthcare standards and it will allow our clinical teams to improve still further the quality of care they provide.” The patient section of the new Imaging

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Department was the first area officially handed over to the Trust by Consort Healthcare and the early access will allow pre-equipping to be carried out prior to the hospital opening. Paul Sinnott, New Hospitals Project

Programme Advisor, explained, “This part of the new hospital has been almost ready for some time now, we just had to go through the snagging process to ensure everything was 100 % as we wanted it before we gained early access. “Over the next few weeks and months the

teams will be able to carry out tests to ensure all the equipment is installed correctly and working properly before the first patients come through the doors. It’s a gradual process but all part of the intensive and detailed planning that has gone into every stage of this major project. The fact that our partners have delivered on time means that the Trust is on schedule with its move plans.”

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