202 (Midlands) Field Hospital is a specialist Army Reserve medical unit headquartered in Birmingham, with detachments in Coventry, Shrewsbury, and Abingdon. It recruits heavily from NHS professionals across the Midlands, transforming civilian doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals into military medical staff capable of operating in high-intensity conflict zones. Its primary mission is to provide the clinical manpower to staff a Role 3 Field Hospital, delivering advanced surgical, intensive care, and ward-level treatment in austere environments. The unit has a rich operational history, having deployed significant numbers of personnel to Iraq (Operation TELIC) and Afghanistan (Operation HERRICK), where they worked alongside Regular counterparts to run the trauma hospitals that achieved world-leading survival rates for combat casualties.
