The renal unit is a prominent feature of the New Queen Elizabeth Hospital, providing regional services in kidney transplantation. This Unit is one of the largest in the UK, performing up to 200 renal transplants this year and looking to expand further. Living related transplantation accounts for 20% of the transplant activity. It serves a catchment area of approximately 4.5 million people and has the largest waiting list in the UK.

The Unit additionally provides surgical support for one of the largest renal failure programmes in the country with more than a thousand patients requiring renal replacement, the majority of whom are using haemodialysis. There are links with Birmingham Children's Hospital and they have three of their own paediatric transplant surgeons. There is an active programme of clinical development with hand assisted laparoscopic donor nephrectomy, a very strong ABO incompatible program, complex transplant clinics, tertiary and novel vascular access, a regional transplant network and a strong live donor support program. This would ideally suit a trainee surgeon with an interest in vascular or transplant surgery.