University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) runs the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham Chest Clinic, Heartlands Hospital, Good Hope Hospital, Solihull Hospital and various community services across the region.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Foundation Trust and has approximately 50,000 members and employs more than 20,000 members of staff. It is one of the largest Trusts in England treating over 2.2 million patients each year and has more than 2,700 beds across its sites.
The Trust has regional centres for trauma, burns, plastics, neurosciences, dermatology and cancer. It also has centres of excellence for vascular, bariatric and pathology services, as well as the treatment of MRSA and other infectious diseases. We also have expertise in HIV/AIDS, premature baby care, bone marrow transplants and thoracic surgery.
The Trust delivers approximately 10,000 babies each year and provides around 20,000 days of neo-natal care.
UHB has the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe and runs Umbrella, the sexual health service for Birmingham and Solihull. It is also home to the West Midlands Adult Cystic Fibrosis Centre and a nationally-renowned weight management clinic and research centre.
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham is a Major Trauma Centre treating the most severely injured casualties from across the region. The hospital’s single site 100-bed critical care unit is the largest in Europe.
The Trust hosts the Institute of Translational Medicine (ITM) and leads the West Midlands genomics Medicine Centre as part of the national 100,000 Genomes Project.
UHB is also proud to host the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM). The RCDM provides dedicated training for defence personnel and is a focus for medical research.
UHB also holds the contract for providing medical services to military personnel evacuated from overseas via the aero medical service. UHB is one of only a small number of hospitals that can provide the full range of medical specialties – trauma, burns, plastics, orthopaedics, neurosurgery, critical care – needed to treat the complex nature of conflict injuries, all under one roof.
The pioneering techniques in surgery and pain control that have been developed whilst treating military patients are now being used for civilian surgery in the UK and elsewhere and are being progressed through the Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC).
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Solihull Hospital
Jonathan Brotherton
Interim Chief Executive
Jonathan joined HEFT in September 2014 as Director of Operations and was appointed to the Board of Directors in March 2015. When UHB and HEFT merged in April 2018, Jonathan became the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Good Hope, Heartlands and Solihull hospitals.
On 1 April 2019 he was appointed COO for the whole Trust and is responsible for the day to day running of its four hospitals, Birmingham Chest Clinic, Solihull Community Services and a number of ‘satellite’ units. In addition to holding the COO role, Jonathan was appointed as Deputy Chief Executive in February 2022, and became Interim Chief Executive in January 2023.
He joined the NHS in 1992 as a trainee paramedic in Worcestershire working clinically for 12 years before moving into management full time. He graduated from the University of Worcester with a Masters’ degree in Management Studies in 2007 and has worked in senior leadership roles in a number of acute hospital trusts, regional ambulance services and the National Intensive Support team.