Birmingham
The Birmingham Children's Hospital, previously known as The Diana, Princess of Wales Children's Hospital provides general and emergency health care services to children in Birmingham, the West Midlands and beyond. It specialises in liver transplantation, cardiac, and neonatal surgery. Birmingham Children's also hosts the West Midlands Regional Centre for Cleft Lip and Palate, providing a multidisciplinary service for cleft patients, including speech & language therapy, dental, orthodontics, maxillofacial, plastic surgery and psychology. It is currently the only hospital in the UK to carry out intestinal transplants in children.
The hospital is managed by the Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS FoundationTrust, which also provides Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) for the city.
It opened in 1862 as the Birmingham and Midland Free Hospital for Sick Children at 138–9 Steelhouse Lane It moved to a new site on Ladywood Road in 1917..In 1998 the hospital returned to Steelhouse Lane, to the buildings previously used by the General Hospital.
The Hospital treats over 140,000 children a year from all over the UK, and is regarded as one of the best children's hospitals in Europe.
In 2007, a new extension designed by RPS Group was opened. The modern extension houses a burns unit, one of three such centre’s of excellence in the country. As well as this, it contains an outpatients department, a neo-natal Unit, a burns ward and a burns operating theatre, as well as additional classrooms for the Education Centre, allowing children to continue their education whilst undergoing medium to long term care in the hospital.