• Babies Ivy and Isla lying face to face

    This month’s stories are not to be missed

    Meet Ivy and Isla, who became the best of friends after spending the first 50 days of their lives together on NICU and Esther, who was able to ring the end-of-treatment bell after a two-year battle with cancer.

    Read the latest BWC news

  • Staff at BWC in the new ED reception

    New ED waiting room opens as next phase of works start

    We are delighted to open our new Children’s Hospital Emergency Department (ED) waiting room as work begins on the next exciting phase of our multi-million-pound improvement programme.

    Find out more about our new waiting room

  • Midwives walking down a hospital corridor

    New Antenatal Education Hub

    Our Antenatal Education Hub is designed to support you at every stage of your pregnancy and beyond, with everything from useful leaflets and website resources to workshops and classes.

    Visit the Hub

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KIDSNTS celebrates 10 years of critical care transport across the West Midlands

KIDSNTS marked its 10-year anniversary on Wednesday 1 July, celebrating a decade of providing unified neonatal and paediatric critical care transport across the West Midlands. ...

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Premature babies who met on NICU are best friends forever

After spending the first 50 days of their lives together on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), premature babies Ivy-Rae and Isla-Rose have become best friends for life....

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Baby Noah fights on after op by surgeons to repair hole in diaphragm

The parents of a baby born with a hole in his diaphragm have thanked surgeons for the life-saving operation which he underwent just a week after he was born....

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Celebrating the first National Children’s Nurses Day in Birmingham

Today (Tuesday 30 June) is the very first National Children’s Nurses Day, a significant and special moment for us at Birmingham Children’s Hospital....

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    Providing a range of specialist health care services to more than 50,000 women, men and families each year.

  2. Mental Health Services

    Forward Thinking Birmingham is the city’s mental health service for children and young people aged 0 – 25. Please note, this is now managed by Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Trust (BSMHFT). For inpatient mental health managed by Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS FT (BWC), please visit Birmingham Children’s Hospital.