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Date: 22 May 2012
Time: 17:24
QEHB reaches 100 day milestone
Story posted/last updated: 24 September 2010
On September 24, Birmingham’s newest hospital marked its first 100 days of operation since it received its first patient.
Just after 03:00 on 16 June, William Totley from Cosely arrived at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham’s (QEHB) new Emergency Department (ED) with a badly injured hand and went into the record books as the new hospital’s first patient.
Since then doctors and nurses in the Emergency Department have seen around 22,677 patients.
Of those, 96 have been flown onto the hospital’s new helicopter pad by different air ambulance services from all over the West Midlands and beyond.
The first patient to benefit from that service was a 60-year-old woman who fell on some steps at Stokesay Castle in Shropshire.
The hospital has also trained 23 staff volunteers to act as fire fighters on the helideck, with three on call during daylight hours to attend all air ambulance landings.
Land ambulances, particularly those of West Midlands Ambulance Service, play a major role in the ED’s operations. Since opening, 7,688 patients have been brought to ED by land ambulance.
The clinicians treating these patients have worked their way through around:
- 23,000 pairs of sterile gloves
- 1,600 boxes of bandages
- 16,000 disposable syringes
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Charity has been a major supporter of the hospital’s construction and operation, spending nearly £1.7 million on a huge range of projects and equipment for the benefit of patients that are over and above the core NHS budget.
Included in that spending is more than £400,000 on special pain relief pumps that can be controlled by patients and £100,000 on a wireless digital X-ray system for the critical care unit.
The Charity has also contributed to items as varied as defibrillators and patient chairs. Without the charity, QEHB would not be the remarkable place it is for patients, staff and visitors.
"The hospital charity has been delighted to purchase some of those added extras that make the new hospital so special" said Mike Hammond, chief executive of QEHB Charity "We exist purely to benefit patients at the hospital and by providing this extra equipment we are helping to make the new QE one of the best hospitals in the country."
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