Freedom of Information Request: 0159 2019/20

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

Please provide a list of the hospitals within the remit of the following:

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust;

1. Which have a Specialist Stroke Unit (by which we mean a stroke unit with a 24 hours a day/7 days a week available team with access to a scanner and operator capable of triage for throbotic / hemorrhagic Stroke identification and location, presence of readily available infusion products and neurologist on call and follow up care

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham has Stroke and Neurological support all located in the main hospital building (Stroke – Ward 514, Neuro support – Angiography Suite), all staffed by clinical on-call, specialist nursing and ward nursing support.

Heartlands Hospital has the Hyper Acute Stroke Unit and Acute Stroke Unit located in the main building ( ward 23, 1^st floor). The team is composed of stroke consultant (in hours, on call out of hours), stroke nurse specialist (24 hours), stroke advanced clinical practitioner, ward nursing.

Good Hope and Solihull Hospital Stroke Units are for rehabilitation purposes, not for the admission of the acute strokes.

In respect of each Specialist Stroke Unit on the list that you provide, please include:

2. The address of the Stroke Unit;Ward 514, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2GW

   Ward 23 (HASU/ASU) Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green East, B9 55SS, Birmingham

   Ward 8 at Solihull Hospital, Lode Lane, B91 2 JL, Solihull, Birmingham

   Ward 24 at Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield, B75 7RS, Birmingham

3. Their emergency telephone number (or, where there is no such number available, a telephone number for the hospital switchboard on which the relevant Stroke Unit may be contacted) –

   Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham- Stroke Physician can be contacted via switchboard (number 0121 371 2000), or the Stroke Nurse Practitioner number on 07769 932 342

   Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull- Stroke physician can be contacted via the switchboard for all 3 sites (number 012104242000), or the Stroke Nurse Practitioner available at Heartlands only on number 07971717588

4. If the capability to use surgical techniques to remove some thromboses via catheter is available –

   Thrombolysis and thrombectomy procedures both performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

   Thrombolysis procedure offered only at Heartlands Hospital. If the patient presents himself/herself to Solihull or Good Hope and fulfils the criteria for thrombolysis procedure, then he/she is transferred via ambulance to Heartlands Hospital

5. In the relevant Specialist Stroke Unit (or if only available in certain more specialised stroke units please identify the units where such techniques are available –

   Thrombolysis and Thrombectomy procedures both performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. Thrombectomy procedures performed in Angiography department with Neurointerventional Radiologist and Neuroanaesthetist support.