The hospital started as an infirmary which was added to the West Bromwich union workhouse in 1884.

Improvements were begun in 1925, when the infirmary then became a separate institution named Hallam Hospital.

[2] A new £18m Emergency Services Centre opened on the Sandwell General Hospital campus in April 2005.

This facility replaced the old A&E department destroyed by the largest fire in National Health Service history.

[5][6] Sandwell General Hospital provides a comprehensive range of medical and nursing services including general medicine, surgery, urology, plastic surgery, orthopaedics, gastroenterology, rheumatology, interventional cardiology (including percutaneous coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction since 2005) and paediatrics.