Royal Liverpool University Hospital and Broadgreen Hospital

The current UHLG model is comprised of Liverpool University Hospitals (LUHFT), Liverpool Women’s Hospital (LWH);  and will be joined in future by Liverpool Heart and Chest (LHCH), The Walton Centre (WNCC) and Clatterbridge Cancer Centre (CCC).

LUHFT which comprises of Aintree Hospital, Royal Liverpool Hospital and Broadgreen Hospital; have a Medical Education team supporting across three sites with dedicated Undergraduate Clinicians, Administration and Practice Education facilitators.  As a multi-site model, some clinical specialties will be functioning across the sites in a collaborative way, while other specialties are single site.

The Royal is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single en-suite bedrooms, improving patient experience, safety and enhanced recovery. It provides emergency and general care, alongside focusing on complex planned care and specialist services. These include nephrology, renal transplantation, nuclear medicine, haematology, lithotripsy, dermatology and urology.

It is a regional centre for pancreatic & liver, urological, ocular, testicular, colorectal & anal, and oesophago-gastric cancers, specialist palliative care, specialist radiology and specialist pathology and chemotherapy services. It also houses St Paul’s Eye Unit, a world-renowned ophthalmic service.

Broadgreen Hospital treats patients from across Merseyside and Cheshire and is home to several elective (planned) surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. The hospital has a main surgical theatre space for complex patient procedures, alongside a surgical hub at the Broadgreen site which is designed to provide planned, low-complexity procedures, focussing on specialities such as general surgery, orthopaedics, urology. The hospital also hosts a regional dermatology service.