University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is the leading university teaching hospital in the West Midlands. It is one of the most-consistently highest performing trusts in the NHS and has been rated "excellent" for financial management and "good" for quality of clinical and non-clinical services for the past three years by the Healthcare Commission.
The Trust runs two hospitals - the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Selly Oak Hospital - which provide adult services to more than half a million patients every year, from a single outpatient appointment to a heart transplant. The Trust is a regional centre for cancer, trauma, burns and plastics, and has the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe.
The Trust employs around 6,900 staff and is currently building Birmingham's first new acute hospital in 70 years. The £545 million hospital will open its doors to patients in the Summer of 2010.
** Our Vision **
To deliver the best in care.
** Our Purpose **
To provide leading edge healthcare for the people and communities we serve locally, nationally and internationally by delivering excellence in patient care through clinical expertise, research, innovation, teaching, training and support services.
** Our values **
* Respect
We respect each other at all times with regard to age, disability, gender, position, race, religion and sexual orientation through professionalism and courtesy, treating all patients, colleagues, visitors, carers, communities and others as they would wish to be treated.
* Responsibility
We take personal and collective responsibility to do the best we can, working towards agreed individual and Trust-wide goals and expect to be held accountable and to challenge poor performance.
* Honesty
We are open, have integrity and are inclusive in our engagement and our decision processes.
* Innovation
We strive to be responsive, creative and flexible, always looking for ways to do things better. We trial new ideas and share best practice quickly and fully.
