Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham is a major, 1,215 bed, tertiary NHS and military hospital in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, situated very close to the University of Birmingham. The hospital, which cost £545 million to construct, opened on 16 June 2010, replacing the previous Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Selly Oak Hospital. It is one of the largest single-site hospitals in the United Kingdom and is part of one of the largest teaching trusts in England.
The new Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, March 2011
The new hospital to the left, and the old hospital to the right
New hospital whilst under construction
National Health Service (England)
The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly funded healthcare system in England, and one of the four National Health Service systems in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest single-payer healthcare system in the world after the Brazilian Sistema Único de Saúde. Primarily funded by the government from general taxation, and overseen by the Department of Health and Social Care, the NHS provides healthcare to all legal English residents and residents from other regions of the UK, with most services free at the point of use for most people. The NHS also conducts research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, which with 1237 beds is one of the largest NHS hospitals
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, another large NHS hospital in England, which has 1213 beds
Aneurin Bevan. As health minister from 1945 to 1951, he spearheaded the establishment of the National Health Service
Leaflet concerning the launch of the NHS in England and Wales