The Hand Centre at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) is one of the largest in the country, serving approximately 5.5 million individuals. With the addition of the elective care provided at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital (ROH), it provides a comprehensive service to treat all conditions of the adult hand.

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

At the heart of the centre there are sixteen hand surgeons, eight orthopaedic and eight plastic surgery consultant hand surgeons. 

The centre accepts referrals from local hospitals as follows.

Heartlands (UHB), Good Hope (UHB),Russels Hall - Dudley,Walsall, Wolverhampton, Worcester and Redditch:

• Amputation/Replantation
• Devascularised digits
• Acute flexor and extensor tendon injuries
• Flexor sheath injection
• Deep soft tissue wounds in arm/forearm without tendon/nerve injury

City and Sandwell:

• Amputation/Replantation
• Devascularised digits

Heartlands (UHB) and Good Hope (UHB):

• Acute carpal, metacarpal and interphalangeal fractures only if surgery is needed
• Paronychia if cannot be treated at the referring hospital A&E

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital

The ROH is an elective hospital to the south of Birmingham city centre at which we cover the majority of elective hand surgery treatments, including the newly licensed Xiapex™ collagenase injection for Dupuytren’s contracture.

Allied health professionals

We work closely with a number of other health specialists to provide optimal patient care, including anaesthetists and anaesthetic physicians' assistants, hand therapists, theatre staff, nursing staff, radiologists and neurophysiologists.

External referral protocol

Please find details of our external referral protocol on the link below:

• External referral protocol | UHB