Birmingham: Archives and Heritage Service
Record types
- Administrative
- 1860 - 1992
Hospital
Birmingham Children's Hospital
Last updated .
Important information
Information about this hospital might be outdated.
Details
- Previous Names
- The Birmingham and Midland Free Hospital for Children; King Edward VII Memorial Children's Hospital (by 1929 - 1970); The Children's Hospital (1971 - 1995)
- Address
- Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham, B4 6NH
- Previous Locations
- Ladywood Middleway
- Birmingham
- B16 8ET
- Current Trust
- Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Trust (since 1995)
- Foundation Year
- 1861
- Status
- Open
Administrative Authorities
- Regional Board (1948-1974)
- Provinces
- Management Committee (1948-1974)
- United Birmingham
- Regional Authority (1974-1982)
- West Midlands
- Regional Authority (Post-1982)
- West Midlands
- District Authority (1974-1982)
- Central Birmingham (Teaching)
- District Authority (Post-1982)
- Central Birmingham
- Pre-1974 County
- Warwickshire
- Post-1974 County
- West Midlands
- Post-1996 County
- West Middlands
Status
- Pre-1948
- Private, Voluntary
- Pre-1948 information
- VOL: Mainly.
- PRIV: Some wards.
- Post-1948
- NHS, Trust
Type
- Pre-1948
- Children, Women
- Post-1948
- Other
- Post-1948 information
- OTHER: 1948 - at least 1997 Children.
Other information
Extensions and a new outpatients department were built in 1925. It was approved by the Ministry of Health for treatment of tuberculosis (bone and joint cases) and venereal diseases. There was a tonsil and adenoid detention ward. [1929 Burdett's Hospitals and Charities].