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. It was designed by Thomas Arthur Lodge and opened in 1938.
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. The hospital is served by University station which is a five minute walk away.
[edit] New hospital: Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
A new hospital has been built adjacent to the current site. It is to replace the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Selly Oak Hospital, although it will incorporate some of the newer parts of the current Queen Elizabeth Hospital. It will be named the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham[1]. Services from Selly Oak hospital will move in on a date in June 2010, and services from the current Queen Elizabeth Hospital will move in in November 2010.[2] For the Trust this allows simplification of operation due to a single site, and will also entail the removal of several administration departments to off-site facilities due to a lack of real estate available at Edgbaston.[citation needed] The new hospital is part of a £1 billion urban regeneration plan for Bournbrook and Selly Oak which includes the construction of a £350 million retail development and the construction of new roads. Plans for the new hospital were unveiled in 1998[3] and was approved by Birmingham City Council in October 2004[4] after the design was unveiled earlier that year.[5]
The new building is part of a Private Finance Initiative with Consort Healthcare Ltd. There were problems with the scheme when plans for Consort to sign the deal fell through in March 2005. A deal was signed in early 2006.[6]
The hospital was designed by BDP Architects and construction, which is being undertaken by Balfour Beatty,[6] began in 2006. Five Liebherr 280 EC tower cranes supplied by Balfour Beatty Civil & Construction Plant Services (BBCCPS) were used during construction. Three of the cranes were among the tallest free-standing structures in the UK. One of the cranes was at its maximum free standing height, 90.2 m (295.9 ft) under the hook and could lift 12t at 27.9 m (91.5 ft) or 4.9t at 60 m (197 ft). The other two cranes stand at 79.5 m (260.8 ft).[7]
The first part to be completed was the £12 million multi-storey car park. A further £30 million was spent on preparing the site for construction. The finished complex will comprise three 63 metre tall towers, each 9 storeys tall.[8] These will contain the in-patient wards.[9] A skybridge will lead from one of the towers to the retained estate containing the departments of oncology, the pharmacy and the Wellcome Research Centre.[10] As well as providing patient care, the hospital will include an education centre and retail outlets. The main atrium will have a glass roof.[11]
Upon completion in June 2010, the hospital, the first acute hospital to be built in the city for over 70 years, is expected to have cost £559 million. It will provide 1,105 beds.[12]
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.uhb.nhs.uk/blogs/NewHospital/2009/03/birminghams-new-hospital-named.html
- ^ "New hospital project milestones". http://www.uhb.nhs.uk/NewHospital/milestones.html.
- ^ Long, winding road to new city superhospital - Birmingham Post, January 30 2006 (Accessed October 6 2007)
- ^ Bullring-sized hospital gets go ahead - icBirmingham, October 22 2004 (Accessed October 6, 2007)
- ^ Unveiled: Brum's new superhospital - icBirmingham, January 22 2004 (Accessed October 6, 2007)
- ^ a b PFI fears could scupper hospital - Birmingham Post, January 30 2006 (Accessed October 6, 2007)
- ^ "Balfour Beatty buys Liebherrs". Cranes Today. 2007-02-09. http://www.cranestodaymagazine.com/story.asp?sectioncode=135&storycode=2042026. Retrieved 2008-04-26.
- ^ Skyscrapernews: Birmingham Super Hospital Tower 1 2 3
- ^ Skyscrapernews: Hospital site
- ^ Skyscrapernews: Annotated image
- ^ Skyscrapernews: Main entrance image
- ^ Beds axed - before hospital is built! - Birmingham Mail, October 5 2007 (Accessed October 6, 2007)
[edit] External links
- University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
- New Hospital: Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
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