The trust operates the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Edgbaston (QEHB), adjacent to its older namesake and connected to it by a footbridge.

[4] In December 2013 it emerged that the Trust was interested[needs update] in expanding into Primary Care, a proposal which was not welcomed by all the local General Practitioners.

The ambition was that the symptom checker could refer patients directly to specialist clinics, avoiding its accident & emergency (A&E) department.

[14] The trust was one of the biggest beneficiaries of capital funding for the NHS in August 2019, with an allocation of £97.1 million for a purpose built building for outpatient, treatment and diagnostic services.

This enables multi-disciplinary teams to give remote clinical support using digital stethoscopes and ECGs to review and provide diagnoses for patients.

At the same time Heartlands Hospital's Gynaecology Assessment Unit was temporarily moved to Good Hope with home-birth services being suspended.

[19] In October 2021, Professor David Rosser, chief executive at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, at the Digital Health's Autumn Leadership Summit reported that the trusts' digital programmes, which included Babylon's Ask A&E chat service had cut the number of preventable hospital visits by 63%.

[20] In December 2021, as the Trust reported an increase of nearly 50% demand on A&E to pre-pandemic levels, as well as highlighting its knock-on effect that COVID-19 had on ward space and how COVID-19 measures affected patient flow through A&E, it increased capacity opening two additional wards at Good Hope, Heartlands and Queen Elizabeth hospitals as well as further theatres at Solihull Hospital as the ‘cold’ Covid-free site for elective surgery.

[21] In January 2022 it became known that the Trust had submitted plans to Birmingham City Council to build a top-class training centre at Good Hope Hospital, which was needed due to the increased number of medical students.

[24] In October 2014 Julie Moore called for a major overhaul of financial rules to help popular hospitals cope with the extra demand their reputations attract.

[26] In June 2014 the trust reported that Accident and Emergency Department activity had continued to rise with more than 102,000 attendances, a 4.9% increase over the previous year.