{"id":579,"date":"2015-03-25T15:38:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/bwnft-site\/?page_id=579"},"modified":"2015-08-26T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T11:05:01","slug":"local-care-global-impact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bwh.timothyblake.com\/?page_id=579","title":{"rendered":"Local Care: Global Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"

For more than 150 years, excellent healthcare has been at the heart of everything we do at Birmingham Women\u2019s Hospital and when you are as passionate about what you do as we are, it\u2019s hardly surprising that we have a global impact.<\/p>\n

Pioneering healthcare<\/h2>\n

A number of operations we take for granted today such as the removal of the appendix, Caesarean section for haemorrhage in late pregnancy (Placenta Praevia) and surgery for ruptured tubal (ectopic) pregnancy \u2013 were all pioneers at Birmingham Women\u2019s Hospital by Robert Lawson Tait in the 1870s.<\/p>\n

Tackling Cancer<\/h2>\n

The NHS cervical screening programme is considered to be the best in the world.\u00a0 Its roots are firmly at BWH.\u00a0\u00a0 Our cytology centre was set up after the team at the hospital trained with George Papanicolau in New York and brought the Papanicolau (or Pap test) to the UK.<\/p>\n

Former BWH medical director Joe Jordan <\/strong>\u00a0changed the thinking about routine hysterectomies following abnormal smear results.\u00a0 Having learned about colposcopy, Joe Jordan brought the technique back to Birmingham and set up the UK\u2019s first colposcopy clinic.<\/p>\n

Survival rates for ovarian cancer also improved in the 1970s when BWH oncology specialist Kiong (Charlie) Chan<\/strong> helped to develop surgery for this life-threatening condition.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Charlie Chan\u2019s work is recognised worldwide and he is a founding member of the International Gynaecological Cancer Society and the British Gynaecological Cancer Society.<\/p>\n

Local Care: global impact<\/h2>\n

Today local care: global impact not only means we are the fourth highest research recruiting Acute specialist trust in the UK for clinical trials but we:<\/p>\n

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  • treat 50,000 people a year<\/li>\n
  • carry out 3,000 operations<\/li>\n
  • test more than 50,000 genetics samples<\/li>\n
  • test more than 60,000 pathology samples<\/li>\n
  • deliver more than 8,000 babies – making Birmingham Women\u2019s Hospital one of the busiest maternity departments in the UK<\/li>\n
  • treat babies from across the UK who have life threatening conditions whilst there are still in the womb (fetal medicine)<\/li>\n
  • provide neonatal intensive care for the Midlands tiniest and sickest babies<\/li>\n
  • offer specialised services for diagnosis of genetic disorders including tests for familial cancer<\/li>\n
  • run the largest genetic laboratory in the UK<\/li>\n
  • host the UK\u2019s National Sperm Bank, a modern, NHS based, fully-integrated donor recruitment, screening and banking centre to meet all donor sperm requirements across the UK<\/li>\n
  • are collaborating with partners in the West Midlands as one of 11 centres across the country leading the way in delivering the 100,000 Genomic Medicine Project, and<\/li>\n
  • provide physiotherapy, new born transport services, radiology and milk band supporting sick and premature babies across the West Midlands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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