It is managed by the Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and is the leading paediatric hospital in the Midlands.

The hospital specialises, in particular, in transplantation, cardiac, liver & neonatal surgery and is the only UK hospital that performs intestinal transplants on children.

The campus also contains a national burns unit, a regional centre for Cleft Lip & Palate, and a Child & Adolescent Mental Health Unit.

Lone nurses walking between the hospital and city centre car parks have been harassed. Nightshift nurses have been advised to arrive and depart in groups (News Archive 11/03/10).

A surgical error appears to have caused the death of a 16 year-old boy undergoing minor routine surgery on Wednesday 16th February 2010. A senior surgeon apparently selected the wrong instrument for the procedure and punctured a main artery causing multiple organ failure (News Archive 21/03/11).

The Nursing and Midwifery Council have struck off a 42-year-old staff nurse for swearing at a colleague in front of sick children and injecting a child with the wrong drug dosage (News Headlines 20/06/11).

This hospital admitted liability in the case of a 14-year-old girl who was paralysed following routine surgery in June 2008 because a spinal anaesthetic was left in place for more than two days (News Headlines 02/09/11).

It is a 10-storey hospital dating from 1963 which is now outdated because it contains heavy concrete columns that cramp the facilities and prevent spatial reorganisation.

The fabric also contains asbestos and there is an inadequate plumbing system with a constant risk of legionnaires disease.

The hospital provides urgent dental treatment to more than 100,000 patients each year, often on a walk-in basis.

It is also a research centre with extensive lab facilities that trains undergraduate & postgraduate dental students in partnership with the University of Birmingham. The payroll includes 400 NHS personnel and 300 university staff.

The hospital also operates an outreach clinic at Boots on Birmingham High Street (map).

There are plans to build a new dental hospital, possibly by 2014; however, additional government funding is required.

Several locations were considered, including Pebble Mill in Edgbaston and Battery Park in Selly Oak (News Archive 25/01/10).

Plans for a new £31 million hospital on the former site of BBC Pebble Mill were announced in May 2011 (News Headlines 27/05/11).

It provides sexual health services including contraception, HIV testing and screening for sexually transmitted infections.

Patients are either referred by their GP or attend on their own initiative; there is an outreach clinic at the Soho Health Centre on Louise Road in Handsworth.