QE super hospital opens

The new £2.6 billion Queen Elizabeth super hospital has opened in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

6,900 staff will treat around 650,000 patients a year as the hospital replaces two hospitals. The QE will include Europe's largest organ transplant programme and the largest critical care unit treating trauma, burns, plastics, brain conditions and cancer. The new super hospital has strong links with the Cancer Research UK Centre and Cure Leukaemia as it bids to become one of the first centres in the UK to deliver a new cancer treatment called Proton Therapy.