News

Our Milk Bank is calling for more donors to provide breast milk to babies in our neonatal unit and provide to hospitals across the West Midlands. 

You may have read in October about the incredible story of Sheila Jones, the first patient in the world to be treated for Phenylketonuria (PKU) using a special diet prepared at our Children’s Hospital in 1951. Well, we were delighted to welcome the son of one of the key figures in Sheila’s treatment, Dr John Gerrard, who travelled over from the United States to find out more about his father’s legacy 70 years on.

Harry was born with Shone's syndrome, a very rare congenital heart disease where many of the left heart structures are not formed properly.

A nurse from our Children’s Hospital has recently spent time volunteering in Bolivia to help young people with cleft lip and cleft palate in communities where treatment is not always readily available.

The ribbon has been cut to officially open our Children’s Hospital Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory (Cath Lab) after a £2.1million upgrade.

A brave seven-year-old from Birmingham with a life-threatening rare, and at one-time fatal, genetic condition is now thriving after a ‘world first’ new enzyme treatment received at our Children’s Hospital.

As we celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month, we are excited to invite you to participate in the series of events organised by our LGBTQ+ Network

Children are now back in the classroom after the festive break and, unfortunately, this time of the year sees viruses and infections on the rise. To help, we’ve put together some tips and simple steps families can take to keep children safe and healthy this winter.

Seven-year-old Anderson Pollard recently rang the bell at our Children’s Hospital to celebrate being cancer-free after he was diagnosed with a rare type of Non-Hodgkins lymphoma in May last year.

A new pilot project, led by the Trust's Women's Network, has been set up to help colleagues who may be experiencing period poverty.