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The University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust provides adult district general hospital services for Birmingham as well as specialist treatments for the West Midlands.

The trust operates the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Edgbaston (QEHB), adjacent to its older namesake and connected to it by a footbridge. QEHB began receiving patients at its Emergency Department on 16 June 2010, and replaced Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Selly Oak Hospital. The trust is currently under the leadership of chair Rt Hon Jacqui Smith and chief executive Dr David Rosser who succeeded retired chief executive Dame Julie Moore on 1 September 2018.

On 30 June 2004, the Trust received authorisation to become one of the first NHS Foundation Trusts in England, under the leadership of ex-chief executive Dame Julie Moore, who succeeded Mark Britnell.From 2006 to November 2013 the Chair of the Trust was Sir Albert Bore. Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith took over as Chair in December 2013.

In September 2016 it announced plans to merge with the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust. The merger finally took place on 1 April 2018. The combined organisation will have a turnover of £1.6bn and 2,700 beds across four main hospitals.

All the executive directors are white. There has not been a director who was not white in the last 20 years though more than 40% of the city’s population is from a black, Asian or ethnic minority background. In 2017 36% of the trust’s overall workforce were from a BAME background and in 2020 about half the medical staff.