Throughout our integrated care system, a variety of partners work together across a complex health and care landscape, including hospital trusts.
Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is responsible for commissioning (buying) health services for our patients such as planned hospital care, rehabilitative care, and urgent and emergency care.
Information about the four hospital trusts in Birmingham and Solihull can be found below.
Hospital trusts in Birmingham and Solihull
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national and international population.
The trust includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic.
Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust brings together the expertise of Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Birmingham Women’s Hospital.
The trust is the first of its type in the UK, formed in February 2017 and committed to providing the highest quality, world-class care that women, children and families want, and deserve.
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest specialist orthopaedic units in Europe. Home to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, the trust offers planned orthopaedic surgery to people locally, nationally and internationally.
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust is dedicated to improving the lives of local people, to maintaining an outstanding reputation for teaching and education, and to embedding innovation and research.
The trust includes Birmingham City Hospital, which is home to Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre and Birmingham Treatment Centre, Rowley Regis Hospital and Sandwell General Hospital.