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A grateful mum is passionately encouraging everyone to sign-up and have the chat about their organ donation wishes with loved ones after her one-year-old son, Henry, was given the Gift of Life at Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

Children with the most common malignant form of brain cancer could see diagnostic wait times reduced thanks to new research that trialled a new, quicker and less invasive way of determining which type of tumour they have.  

Olivia Burns was born with a severe heart defect that meant she might not survive into adulthood. But after defying all the odds, the 24-year-old fashion graduate has started her own business designing sustainable, modest hospital gowns to improve patient experience. 

Pregnant women across Birmingham and Solihull are being urged to get vaccinated against whooping cough to help protect their unborn babies from the infection.

BWC has been awarded a prestigious NHS Pastoral Care Quality Award for the bespoke support package it offers nurses and midwives who move to the UK to join the Trust.

BWC proudly held its inaugural Sustainability Conference on Monday (20 May) at The Studio in the city centre, marking a significant step in our commitment to sustainability and collaboration.

Jodie, from Redditch, has donated 60 litres to the milk bank at Birmingham Women’s Hospital since she first started donating at the end of February.

The West Midlands Regional Genetics Laboratory (WMRGL), based at our Trust (BWC), has been awarded Employer of the Year by CSR Scientific Training for their outstanding work on apprenticeships.

For World Asthma Day, our Respiratory Nursing Team have been up and down the corridors of our Children’s Hospital, discussing asthma care with our colleagues, patients and families, especially around asthma training, correct inhaler technique and the importance of different inhalers.

Alongside this, Teresa Evans from our Respiratory Nursing team, who works in the community, kindly gave us an insight and example of what her day entails.

Beth Dennis, Student Nurse at our Children’s Hospital, has been awarded two coveted Student Nursing Times Awards at the ceremony in London on Thursday 25 April.