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Visiting Times

Please phone the ward if you want to visit to clarify the visiting times and number of visitors allowed, also please note that there is an age restriction on some wards. 

Maps & Directions

Click here to view a map of Heartlands Hospital.

Travelling by Car

Heartlands Hospital is on Bordesley Green East, one mile from the A45 Coventry Road. It is within easy access of Junction 6 of the M42 and Junction 6 of the M6 motorway. From Birmingham City Centre, it is approximately two miles past Birmingham City Football Ground.

Click here to view car parking availability and charges...

Travelling by Train

The nearest train station to Heartlands is Stechford, which is two miles away. For more information on train travel please see the links below to help you plan your journey or find out timetables:

Centro | Railtrack | the trainline.com

Travelling by Bus or Coach

Heartlands hospital is on the following bus routes:

73 (former 169) from Solihull Hospital to Heartlands Hospital via Solihull - Sheldon - Radleys - Garretts Green - Yew Tree - Yardley. MONDAY - SATURDAY AND EARLY EVENINGS
97, 97A from Birmingham, Moor Street, Stand MF (behind Marks and Spencers) via Bordesley Green - Heartlands Hospital - Lea Hall - Meadway - Tile Cross - Chelmsley Wood. DAILY
13 from Birmingham, Moor Street, Stand MD via Small Heath - Heartlands Hospital (Yardley Green Road) - Yardley - Garretts Green - Lea Hall Rail Station. MONDAY - SATURDAY DAYTIME
28, 28A from Great Barr (28 Scott Arms, 28A Great Barr School) to Heartlands Hospital (Bordesley Green Road) via Erdington - Yeton - Castle Bromwich - Ward End. MONDAY - SATURDAY DAYTIME
28B from Great Barr, Dyas Road to Heartlands Hospital (Bordesley Green Road) via (see 28, 28A route). EVENINGS / SUNDAYS
663 Erdington - Nechells - Saltely - Bordesley Green - Heartlands Hospital - Stechford - Glebe - Lanchester Way. MONDAY - SATURDAY DAYTIME

Outer Circle to Station Road by Police Station then 97, 97A from Bordesley Green towards Birmingham
Inner Circle to Victoria Street / Bordesley Green then 97, 97A towards Chelmsley Wood

For more information on bus time tables and journey planning click here to visit the Travel West Midlands website...

For more information on coach travel please click here to visit the National Express website...

Direct Dial Numbers

When contacting a particular ward or department, you should always use the direct dial numbers listed on this page. When dialling from outside Birmingham please dial 0121 + the relevant number listed below.

Main Switchboard number: 0121 424 2000

Facilities

Cafes and Restaurants

Our WRVS coffee bar in the main Outpatients entrance area offers a range of hot and cold drinks, snacks, newspapers and magazines. It is open every day until 4pm.

In the main hospital entrance, we have Café One Restaurant, serving a wide range of hot meals, salads, sandwiches, soup and snacks. Our Costa Coffee Bar also has hot drinks, smoothies, sandwiches and cakes.

All our restaurants and cafes offer vegetarian, Halal and Afro-Caribbean food.

Shops

In the main entrance there is also a cash point, WRVS Superstore, Boots, Julian Graves health food, and a mobility shop.

Other Services and Facilities

All sites have telephones which can be used by the public, as well as a freephone to local taxi services.

Wheelchairs and portering assistance are available. Please ask at any of the reception desks or approach one of the nursing staff.

Toilet facilities for people with disabilities are available in Outpatients and in the Main Entrance. Baby changing facilities are also available. Should you wish to feed your baby whilst visiting the department, a private room can be made available to you on request.

History

There has been a hospital on the Birmingham Heartlands site since June 29th 1895, when the first patient was admitted suffering from smallpox. 1978 saw the world's last smallpox case admitted to the hospital. The original hospital was established to provide treatment in isolation for those suffering from Tuberculosis and Diphtheria.

Since that time the hospital has grown into one of the largest in the country with the site changing beyond recognition.  Over recent years the Trust has recognised the need to invest if it is to provide the best in patient care. This investment has included ambitious development programmes:

2005 - New Main Entrance completed at Heartlands Hospital

2002 - New Medical Unit and The West Midlands Adult Cystic Fibrosis Unit opened at a cost of £10 million

2002 - £1 Million Pathology Laboratories opened

2001 - The Fracture Clinic moved to a new building alongside Accident & Emergency, with a new helipad for emergency helicopters

2000 - £6.5 million Elderly Care and Infectious Diseases Unit opened Hospital

1999 - The completion of three new Children's Wards developed at a cost of £3 million

1998 - The development of new Day Surgery and Women's units in both Heartlands and Solihull hospitals

1997 - The new £1.3 million MRI Scanner, Renal Dialysis Unit and new Ophthalmology department opened

1996 - Heartlands and Solihull Hospitals merged

1995 - The £1.5 million Heartlands Education Centre opened

1994 - A new Accident & Emergency Unit was opened at Heartlands Hospital which treats 80,000 people every year and is the busiest in Birmingham. The completion of the £850,000 Glaxo Renal Unit at Heartlands, which is one of the NHS's flagship renal units

1992 - The Princess of Wales Maternity Unit opened, which has one of Birmingham's major neo-natal units. The neo-natal unit has seven intensive care beds, three high dependency and twelve special care cots