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Birmingham Women's Hospital
Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, B15 2TG · NHS England Midlands - Birmingham and Solihull, Black Country, Coventry and Warwickshire, Herefordsh
Rated Good by the CQC. Trust-wide at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, 9 in 10 patients would recommend it. The shortest published NHS wait across this NHS trust is 5 weeks.
About this provider
- Funding
- NHS
- Telephone
- 0121427137
- Find online
- No website on record. Search Google for Birmingham Women's Hospital
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- Look up on nhs.uk
- CQC provider ID
- RQ3
- CQC location ID
- RQ370
Care Quality Commission rating
Most recent inspection: 2023-06-30.
Rating at each inspection
| 2019-11-14 | Good |
Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. CQC uses a four-band scale and does not issue a star rating.
What the CQC inspected
The CQC rates every service against five key questions. These are the ratings from the most recent inspection.
Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30.
Specialties treated here
NHS specialties with a published waiting time at this NHS trust. Select one for how it compares across the area.
What patients said
The NHS Friends and Family Test asks patients whether they would recommend the service. Responses for May 2026. These figures are for Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust and cover all its hospitals.
NHS England Friends and Family Test, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. The FFT is not a formal performance measure and response rates vary between services.
Cancer waiting times
How quickly this trust diagnoses and starts treatment for people referred with a suspicion of cancer. Data for March 2026. Targets are the NHS operational standards. No English region currently meets the 62-day standard. These figures are for Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, which runs this hospital.
target 85%
target 75%
target 96%
62-day treatment by cancer type
The share of patients who began treatment within 62 days of an urgent referral, for each type this trust reports. The national aim is 85%. Numbers per type are smaller, so they move more from month to month.
| Cancer type | Within 62 days |
|---|---|
| Gynaecological | 60% |
NHS England Cancer Waiting Times, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. Provisional monthly data. Small numbers of patients can move a percentage sharply.
NHS waiting times, trust-wide
Waiting times are reported by NHS trusts, not by individual hospitals. These figures are for Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust, which runs this hospital along with its other sites. Waits at this site may differ.
| Specialty | Median wait | Within 18 weeks | Patients waiting |
|---|---|---|---|
| All specialties | 12 wks | 66% | 21,543 |
| Ear, nose and throat | 41 wks | 0% | 3 |
| Gynaecology | 14 wks | 62% | 6,147 |
| Other medical services | 11 wks | 68% | 6,013 |
| Other mental health services | 5 wks | 86% | 7 |
| Other services | 5 wks | 80% | 295 |
| Other surgical services | 16 wks | 53% | 76 |
| Paediatric services | 11 wks | 67% | 9,000 |
| Trauma and orthopaedics | 17 wks | 100% | 1 |
| Urology | 37 wks | 0% | 1 |
NHS-funded care only. Does not reflect private appointment availability. Retrieved 2026-08-30.