# The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham

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## TL;DR

A specialist public bone and joint hospital in Birmingham whose oncology team diagnoses and treats tumours of the bones and soft tissues, including sarcomas. It runs the Birmingham Sarcoma Service together with two other public hospital trusts in Birmingham.

## Summary

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist orthopaedic hospital in Birmingham. Its orthopaedic oncology team specialises in diagnosing and treating benign and malignant tumours of bone and soft tissue. With University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust and Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust it makes up the Birmingham Sarcoma Service, which the hospital says provides specialist care for patients regionally and nationally with all types and stages of soft tissue and bone sarcoma. Its patient pages describe surgery, radiotherapy before or after surgery, and chemotherapy as treatments for soft tissue sarcoma, and point patients to Sarcoma UK and the Bone Cancer Research Trust.

Newsweek and Statista ranked it 243rd in World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: Royal Orthopaedic Hospital; ROH; The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- City: Birmingham, GB
- Type: hospital
- Website: https://www.roh.nhs.uk

## Sources

- The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: https://www.roh.nhs.uk
- Newsweek World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology, rank 243 (Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham): https://rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-specialized-hospitals-2026/oncology
- ROH: Oncology service and the Birmingham Sarcoma Service: https://www.roh.nhs.uk/services-information/oncology
- ROH: About us: https://www.roh.nhs.uk/about-us

## Connected records

- institutions: [Bone Cancer Research Trust](https://onco.cc/institutions/bone-cancer-research-trust/), [Sarcoma UK](https://onco.cc/institutions/sarcoma-uk/), [University Hospitals Birmingham / University of Birmingham Cancer Research Centre](https://onco.cc/institutions/birmingham-cancer-centre/)
- collections: [Newsweek/Statista World's Best Specialized Hospitals: Oncology](https://onco.cc/collections/newsweek-hospitals/)

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