Business News Celebrating the NHS in Birmingham
Birmingham’s association with the NHS, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2018, goes back a long and distinguished way and has resulted in many pioneering developments. These have included world- first transplants and the treatment of Malala Yousafzai after being shot by the Taliban in Pakistan in 2012. Jessica Brookes looks back at the history of Birmingham and the NHS.
In 2018, the National Health Service (NHS) is celebrating 70 years of caring for the nation, and displaying international excellence in medicine. Members and Patrons of the Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce (GBCC) are celebrating the medical excellence and innovation that they have delivered in the region, as a part of the NHS, as well as the impact organisations have made in the medical sector globally. Birmingham has had a long relationship with medicine, with the University of Birmingham’s medical school dating back to 1825 when local surgeon Mr Sands Cox led a course on ‘anatomical demonstrations’ at 24 Temple Row. Since then, the university and the range of other institutions in the region have been world renowned for their leading medical research. Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS
Foundation Trust, the only trust of its type in the UK, performed the first separation of conjoined twins in 2001 by Tony Hockley, and in 1998 performed the first triple transplant of liver, pancreas and small bowel in the UK. Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham more recently
made headlines for treating Malala Yousafzai after being shot by the Taliban in Pakistan in 2012. The hospital was chosen due to its excellence in treating soldiers injured in conflict. The medical institutions and associated organisations
in Birmingham are continuing to make headlines and medical advancements today, as Birmingham City University and Birmingham City Hospital academics and clinicians have been working side by side to create a virtual reality training system that trainee doctors can use for patients with eye conditions. The city has also been influential in training the medical
professionals of tomorrow, as Aston University launched their £60m medical school in 2015. The school is also widening participation and access to the Department of Health and health jobs, by offering places to young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Aston University’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Alec
Cameron, said: “Aston University has been a pioneer of high quality education combined with social mobility and we are now extending that to medical education. I am pleased that, in keeping with the university’s core
Timeline
1825: Local surgeon Mr Sands Cox leads a medical course on 24 Temple Row.
1948: Aneurin Bevan, health minister, founds the NHS.
1998: First triple organ transplant performed at Birmingham Children’s Hospital.
values and with our mission to help support the West Midlands’ workforce of the future, we are embarking on training students to become doctors.” Collaboration is too a key theme that runs in the NHS
in Birmingham. In 2010, Restore Harrow Green aided in the relocation of patients, staff and equipment to the new £545m Queen Elizabeth Hospital from the old hospital units in Selly Oak. More recently, Millennium Point has made a grant of £9,500 available for a sponsored room at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, and Wesleyan announced that they are sponsoring the ‘Excellence in Mental Health Care’ category of the NHS 70 awards. Official celebrations of the NHS will commence on
the 5 July. Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust will be taking part in a campaign named ‘NHS 70tea’, where trusts will be hosting a tea party that will celebrate and thank the NHS.
2010: The new £545 million Queen Elizabeth Hospital is opened in Edgbaston.
2012: Malala Yousafzai is treated at Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
2015: Aston University launch their first medical school.
2018: The NHS turns 70 years old.
MAIN PICTURE: The new Queen Elizabeth hospital site
CENTRE: Aston University medical students honing their knowledge at the new medical school
TOP: The original entrance to the Kings Norton Infirmary, at the old Queen Elizabeth Hospital originally named the Selly Oak Hospital.
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