Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
Part of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
July 2018
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
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BBC’s flagship show celebrates NHS@70 To celebrate the 70th anniversary of the NHS on July 5, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham hosted a live 90-minute evening broadcast from the atrium. The flagship BBC2 programme, broadcast on Tuesday 26 June, illustrated the enormous popularity of the nation’s favourite institution and examined some of the great challenges it faces. It was hosted by Nick Robinson and Anita Rani, with an audience made up of UHB staff, patients and other VIP guests, and was the centrepiece of the BBC’s NHS at 70 season – produced in partnership with The Open University. It looked in depth at how the service has grown over 70 years to impact on everyone’s lives. And, working with a group of Britain’s most
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important health think tanks, the programme also featured exclusive new research into some of the major challenges facing today’s NHS. With his own recent experience of cancer treatment Nick Robinson investigated the question: how good is the NHS? The debate compared the NHS to health services in other countries and also looked at funding, how the service will cope with an ageing population and whether people should be doing more to look after their own health. As well as the serious discussions, the programme also featured heart-warming stories such as the first baby born in the NHS and one of the first nurses to join the organisation. Dame Julie Moore, UHB’s Chief Executive was one of the key guests.
Another guest was liver transplant patient Sarah Jones, aged 50, from Mold in Cheshire. She was interviewed about her recent, successful operation and was joined by dozens of the multidisciplinary team members from across the Trust who have been involved in her care. These included consultants, nurses, therapy staff, housekeepers, pharmacists, porters and HCAs. Sarah said she was delighted to take part “to thank the brilliant people” who have looked after her over the past few years. In preparation for the broadcast, BBC crews moved onto the site a couple of days before to build a ‘stage’ in the atrium. There was also a live link to the Birmingham Women’s Hospital where presenter Helen Skelton met midwives and mums.
■ The NHS in England treats more than 1.4 million patients every 24 hours ■ The NHS is one of the largest employers in the world, along with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, the Indian railways and the Wal-Mart supermarket chain ■ The NHS in England is expected to spend £126 billion in 2018/19 ■ There are more than 7,400 GP practices in England ■ In March 2017, the NHS employed 106,430 doctors, 285,893 nurses and health visitors, 21,597 midwives, 132,673 scientific, therapeutic and technical staff (across England’s hospital and community healthcare services (fulltime equivalent) ■ There are more than 100 volunteering roles within health and social care ■ There were 16 million total hospital admissions in England in 2015/16, 28 per cent more than a decade earlier ■ The total annual attendances at England’s accident and emergency departments was 23 million in 2016/17, 23.5 per cent higher than a decade earlier ■ In comparison with the healthcare systems of ten other countries (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and USA) the NHS was found to be the most impressive overall by the Commonwealth Fund in 2017
Liver transplant patient Sarah Jones
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