Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

23/07/2025

We are proud to have hosted the first-ever joint NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and UK Clinical Research Facility (CRF) Network Conference here in Birmingham! ✨

Now in its 20th year, the UKCRF Network Conference took an exciting new step this year by including BRCs for the very first time.

Planned and delivered by the NIHR Birmingham BRC and CRF (both hosted by UHB), in collaboration with the UKCRF Network, this was a true team effort!

The theme, ‘Co-create to Translate: Achieving Impact through Collaboration’, set the tone for two inspiring days of sessions exploring how BRCs and CRFs can work together to design and deliver world-class research.

With 900+ attendees and every BRC and CRF across the UK and Ireland represented, this was collaboration on a national scale.

👏 A big thank you to all who played a part in making this event a success!

11/07/2025

People from Black communities, with or without health conditions, are invited to take part in the Improving Black Health Outcomes (IBHO) BioResource.

This new research initiative aims to better understand health conditions and how they affect Black communities in the UK.

If you decide to join, you will be asked to donate a blood or saliva sample and complete a health and lifestyle questionnaire.

To register your interest, please email Humeira.hafsa@uhb.nhs.uk or Kimberley.benjamin@uhb.nhs.uk, or call 01213718534.

Find out more here: https://orlo.uk/AeTmO

09/07/2025

🎉 Big congratulations to our Endoscopy Team at QEHB for achieving JAG accreditation!

The team carries out over 11,500 procedures every year, helping to diagnose and treat a wide range of gastro-intestinal conditions.

JAG is a national body that sets and maintains standards for endoscopy services across the country, and this accreditation is a well-deserved recognition of our team's commitment to delivering high-quality care to our patients.

👏 Thank you to everyone involved in making this achievement possible!

08/07/2025

Volunteers wanted for Typhoid and Paratyphoid A Fever vaccine study.

For further information, please visit: https://orlo.uk/qYwhL

Or contact us:
✉️ Email: BiVISTA@uhb.nhs.uk
📞 Tel: 0121 371 1378

08/07/2025

Well done to our brilliant colleagues in the Centre for Rare Diseases for supporting the NHS Big Tea with their fantastic fundraising efforts! 🎉🍰

🫶🍰 We’d like to thank the fabulous team from the Centre for Rare Diseases at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust for supporting the NHS Big Tea last week and holding their own cake stand.

🎉🎈 The Centre is celebrating its 10-year anniversary in September and to mark the occasion the team is launching a new fundraising appeal to raise £10,000 for 10 years. They are fundraising for a new sensory room and additional sensory items to support patients going through treatment at the Centre.

💜🏥 The hospital charity funded the Centre for Rare Diseases and continues to support the centre of excellence, providing added extras to help the patients, their families and staff. The Centre is dedicated to developing and implementing ground-breaking treatments, technologies and techniques to benefit patient care.

The team have lots of fundraising activities planned over the coming months to help them reach their fundraising goal. For more information about the Centre for Rare Diseases, visit ➡ hospitalcharity.org/appeals/centre-for-rare-diseases

04/07/2025

“Try to get that happy medium, as I think the best way to optimise your potential, is having a healthy work/life balance”

Adnan Sharif is a Nephrologist Consultant and Transplant Physician at University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB). Adnan’s medical knowledge comes from a collection of experiences from both here in the UK and across the pond in the United States.

Whether he’s on the ward, getting involved in a society, or making connections around the Trust, Adnan makes sure there’s variation in his job.

Read more about Adnan in this week’s ‘We are UHB’ blog via the link in the comments below. 👇

03/07/2025

📺 The final episode of A&E After Dark airs tonight

Don’t miss our colleagues at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in the last episode of A&E After Dark, airing tonight at 9pm on 5Star.

In tonight’s episode we see:

🚨 Dr Abdul and his team focus on saving a patient’s life as drunk driving leads to a potentially life changing head injury.

🧑‍⚕️ Dr Sukrit and Dr Abdul race to save a 70-year-old man suffering from major chest trauma and a collapsed lung.

🏥 Dr Abdul tackles the results of knife crime as a patient arrives with injuries sustained by a machete attack.

Filmed in 2024, the series takes you behind the scenes of our emergency department, as well as hospitals in Norwich and Tunbridge Wells, showcasing the dedication and expertise of our incredible colleagues working through the night 🌙

📺 Don’t miss it! Watch live or catch up on all the other episodes of the series on My5.

03/07/2025

Have you got your copy yet?🗞️

The latest edition of 𝘜𝘏𝘉 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 is now available!

In this issue, read all about how the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) proudly marked its 15th birthday and other news from across the hospital.🎈

Pick up a copy during your next visit or read it online via the link in the comments below. 👇

02/07/2025

Mark Chatterley was diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) in 2007 - a rare, immune-mediated liver disease. While waiting for a liver transplant, he took part in the ExaLT clinical trial, led by QEHB.

The trial is investigating whether a home-based exercise and motivation-support programme, delivered before and after liver transplantation, can improve patients’ recovery and long-term quality of life.

As we celebrate 15 years of research at QEHB, watch the video below to learn more about how the trial aims to improve outcomes for liver transplant patients and hear Mark share his experience.

28/06/2025

It's going to be 𝑯𝑶𝑻 over the next few days across Birmingham and Solihull. ☀️

Check out this video for some tips during the hot weather. 😎

26/06/2025

📺 New episode of A&E After Dark

Don’t miss our colleagues at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham in the latest episode of A&E After Dark, airing tonight at 9pm on 5Star.

In tonight’s episode of A&E After Dark we see:

🏍️ Our doctors help a young patient who needs treatment after a motorcycle crash.

🚨 The team must find the source of a fire alarm before the situation escalates further.

🏥 Dr Rashid treats a patient with part of his finger ripped off before it leads to a severe infection.

🧑‍⚕️ Dr Karthik helps a patient who is vomiting violently with fluctuating vital signs.

Filmed in 2024, the series takes you behind the scenes of our emergency department, as well as hospitals in Norwich and Tunbridge Wells, showcasing the dedication and expertise of our incredible colleagues working through the night 🌙

📺 Don’t miss it! Watch live or catch up on My5

26/06/2025

Chef Matt Davies sees the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) staff, who saved him after an electric shock, as being ‘like family’.

The accident more than seven years ago left him fighting for his life and without the use of his left arm. He was in and out of QEHB and has had about 70 operations on the arm over the years. Last April, after an infection, part of his left arm had to be amputated.

The accident meant he couldn’t continue his job as a top chef and so for the past four years he has devoted his time raising money for QEHB.

Amazingly, he has managed to raise more than £100,000 for charities, including the QEHB Charity.

Matt, who spoke as part of QEHB’s 15th birthday celebrations, said he will be forever grateful to the nurses on Ward 408 and to Col Mark Foster, the surgeon who has treated him for seven years.