The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust was established in
1994 and is a major acute Trust providing a comprehensive range of
services for the people of Wolverhampton, the wider Black Country,
South Staffordshire, North Worcestershire and Shropshire. It
gained Cancer Centre status in 1997, was designated as the 4th
Regional Heart & Lung Centre during 2004/05 and became one of
the first wave Bowel Screening Centres in 2006.
The Trust is the largest teaching hospital in the Black Country
providing teaching and training to around 130 medical students on
rotation from the University of Birmingham Medical School. It also
provides training for nurses, midwives and allied health
professionals though well established links with the University of
Wolverhampton. One of the largest acute providers in the West
Midlands the Trust has an operating budget of £255 million, 700
beds including 27 intensive care beds and 14 neonatal intensive
care cots and employs almost 5000 staff. In 2008/09 the Trust
treated more than 670,000 patients at hospital and community sites
across the West Midlands.