UHB Charities and RCDM
University Hospital Birmingham Charities is the charity supporting the Queen Elizabeth and Selly Oak hospitals in Birmingham. These hospitals provide world class healthcare to patients not just in the West Midlands but across the UK.
Selly Oak hospital also hosts the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, where military patients from around the world receive treatment and support.
The primary function of the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine (RCDM) is to provide medical support to military operational deployments. It also provides secondary and specialist care for members of the armed forces. It is a dedicated training centre for defence personnel and a focus for medical research.
The RCDM is a tri-service establishment, meaning that there are personnel from all three of the armed services.
The military staff wear their own distinctive uniforms that vary depending on whether they are serving with the Navy, Army, or Air Force (although some wear a generic green uniform, with rank insignia, depending on the area in which they work).
The RCDM is based at Selly Oak Hospital, but defence personnel are fully integrated throughout both sites and treat both military and civilian patients. The Trust also holds the contract for providing medical services to military personnel evacuated from overseas via the “Aero med service”.
UHB Charities provide that extra care that the NHS cannot afford, in extra equipment, funding research and staff education and development.
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