City & Sandwell Hospitals

City Hospital is located two miles west of Birmingham City Centre and is part of Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust. Sandwell hospital receives trainees from the Stoke school of Anaesthesia, and trainees can go to both sites depending on the modules required.

The Trust has 24 theatres, including a dedicated short stay unit in the Birmingham Treatment Centre and tertiary ophthalmology in the Birmingham and Midlands Eye Centre. Other specialties include Gynae-oncology, general, colorectal, trauma, orthopaedics, regional anaesthesia, ENT, breast, plastics, dental, and urology.

The obstetric unit has over 6000 deliveries per year, with a high risk population, and is recognised for advanced training. There is also a peri-operative anaesthetic service looking after high risk patients before and after surgery. The Pain management department encompasses an acute pain service, as well as outpatient multi-disciplinary clinics, a pain management programme, and procedure lists. There are two 16 bedded critical care units, one on either site which are recognised for training and support the medical and surgical services.

The anaesthetic department is actively involved in teaching and training and there are a network of educational supervisors to support this. There is regular teaching for many stages of training, as well as intensive FRCA exam preparation support, multidisciplinary simulation sessions within our clinical teaching unit, and regular departmental meetings for audit/quality improvement activities. Research and audit activities are encouraged, and there are purpose built postgraduate/education facilities on both sites to support this.