NHS and hospital staff stays in Birmingham
NHS staff accommodation in Birmingham
Whole furnished flats in Birmingham for NHS staff, locums, agency clinicians and students on placement. Bills included, no tenancy, and a bed you can sleep in during the day.
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The short answer
Accommodation for NHS staff working in Birmingham.
We let whole apartments in Birmingham to NHS staff, locums, agency clinicians, visiting consultants and students on placement. You get the entire property rather than a room in a shared house: your own kitchen, your own bathroom, a washing machine and somewhere you can actually sleep in the middle of the afternoon. Stays run from a fortnight to several months, the rate drops the longer you are here, and there is no tenancy agreement, no deposit and no referencing. If a trust or an agency is paying, we invoice them directly. Our Birmingham properties are in the Jewellery Quarter, walking distance from the centre.
Called a few different things
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What actually goes wrong
Hospital accommodation is scarce, and a room in a shared house is not a rest.
Trust accommodation runs out, and what is left on the open market is usually a room with a shared kitchen, taken on a tenancy you cannot end when the placement does. Neither works when you are doing nights. A whole flat with its own front door, for exactly the length of the rotation, is the thing that is actually missing. It suits you if:
Where you would be
Getting to work in Birmingham.
The Queen Elizabeth site in Edgbaston
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham sits on the Edgbaston campus off Mindelsohn Way, sharing the site with Birmingham Women's Hospital and backing onto the University of Birmingham. It is not a city centre hospital. From the middle of town it is a short train ride from New Street to University station, or a bus down the Bristol Road. Walking it is a long half hour and nobody does it twice.
Children's is properly central
Birmingham Children's Hospital is on Steelhouse Lane, a few minutes from Snow Hill and the Colmore Row offices, so a placement there genuinely is walkable from a central flat. The Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre is a different matter. It sits out on Dudley Road, west of the centre, which is a bus or a short drive rather than something you stroll to before an early list.
Heartlands and Good Hope are drives
Heartlands Hospital is in Bordesley Green, east of the centre, and Good Hope is up in Sutton Coldfield. Neither is a sensible walk from town and both are awkward on public transport at shift change hours. If your rota is at either, staying central means choosing to commute every day rather than choosing convenience, and that is worth being honest about at the start.
Sleeping through a Birmingham afternoon
On nights the individual flat matters far more than the postcode. Much of central Birmingham sits inside the Middleway ring road and traffic noise carries along the radial roads. What counts is which way the bedroom faces, whether it looks onto traffic or an inner courtyard, and how good the blackout actually is. A flat that is fine at nine at night can be impossible at two in the afternoon.
Life around the hospital campus
Edgbaston around the hospital is residential and quiet, which is exactly what you want for sleep and much less good at eleven at night when you want food. Harborne High Street is the nearest proper run of shops and places to eat, and Selly Oak has the supermarkets. Anything beyond that means heading into the centre, which is a short hop but a decision rather than a stroll.
Parking, and covering two sites
Hospital car parking here is paid and finite, and on street space near the Edgbaston campus is restricted to keep commuters off it. If your rota spans two sites, say the QE and Heartlands, you will drive, and the cross city leg is the slow part because nearly every route funnels around the inner ring. Plan for that rather than discovering it on your first Monday.
Summer cricket and December crowds
Two things change the roads without warning. Edgbaston hosts international cricket through the summer, and the Pershore Road and Edgbaston Road thicken up for those fixtures. From mid November the Christmas market fills Victoria Square and New Street, and the middle of town becomes slow to walk through, let alone drive near. Neither of those shows up in a photograph taken in March.
Booking central by default
The common error is treating the city centre as the safe choice because it is where the hotels are. For a placement at the QE that adds a commute to both ends of a twelve hour shift, and for Good Hope or Heartlands it adds a longer one. Work out which site you are on for most of your rota, then choose around that site instead of around the map.
Booking direct
The same property, without the platform's cut.
Our properties are on Airbnb and Booking.com as well, and you are welcome to book there. Booking direct also avoids the guest service fee the big platforms add on top, which on a longer Birmingham stay is not a small number. Booking with us direct also means you are talking to the people who actually run the property rather than a message thread inside an app, which matters when you need an early check-in or an extra week.
If the placement runs more than a few weeks, message reservations rather than booking night by night. We will quote a weekly or monthly rate, hold the property for the whole rotation, and invoice the trust or the agency if that is who is paying.
In every property
What is actually there when you arrive.
Birmingham questions
What people ask about staying in Birmingham.
Which hospitals are actually reachable from here?
The QE sits in Edgbaston alongside the Women's Hospital and the university, a short run south west of the centre. Birmingham Children's and the Eye Hospital are central, and Heartlands is east in Bordesley Green, which is a genuinely different commute.
Can I park in Birmingham?
The Clean Air Zone covers the city centre inside the A4540 ring road and charges older vehicles daily, which is a real cost if you are driving in every day. Check your vehicle before you book. Outside the zone it is ordinary city parking, tight in the residential streets and paid in the centre.
Which part of Birmingham should I be in?
Most of what you would need day to day sits in the Jewellery Quarter, the city core, Digbeth and Edgbaston. Tell us where you need to be each morning rather than which postcode you fancy, and we will be honest about what is close to it and what only looks close on a map.
How easy is it to get around Birmingham without a car?
New Street puts London inside an hour and twenty, the NEC and the airport are ten minutes on the train, and the tram runs through the centre.
What is there to do in Birmingham on a day off?
The canals, the Jewellery Quarter, Digbeth and the Bullring are all inside a walk of the core, and the Lickey Hills, Cannock Chase and Stratford are inside an hour. Birmingham rewards a bit of exploring on a long stay, because almost none of the good parts are the parts on a postcard.
Questions we get asked
What NHS staff ask us before booking.
Can the trust or my agency be invoiced directly?
Yes, and it is common. We invoice the trust or the agency with the dates, the address and any purchase order reference, and VAT is shown properly. Give us the billing details when you book rather than trying to reclaim it later.
Is there a tenancy, a deposit or referencing?
No. This is a booking, not a tenancy, so there is no referencing, no guarantor and no protected deposit scheme. Some properties hold a small damage deposit released after checkout, and we say so before you book rather than after.
I am on nights. Can I actually sleep during the day?
That is the question worth asking and most listings dodge it. Ask us about the specific flat: which way the bedroom faces, whether it is on a main road, what the blackout is like. We would rather have that conversation before you book than have you lying awake at two in the afternoon.
How long can I stay?
From a couple of weeks to several months, and the rate improves the longer it runs. Tell us the full length of the rotation at the start and we will price it that way rather than you extending a week at a time.
Check availability
Send us the rotation dates.
Check what is available on the booking site, or message reservations with your dates and which site you are working at, and we will tell you honestly what suits.
Reservations, seven days a week, on 0333 880 7213