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For Ivy Lee and her family this Christmas Day will be extra special as, with the support of our clinical teams, Ivy Lee will spend some time in the family home in Dudley on Christmas Day.

You may recognise Arlo, the brave, strong-willed Birmingham Children’s Hospital patient who is fast becoming a social media star thanks to his Fancy Dress Fridays.

Two years on from twin boys Jenson and Grayson’s magical Christmas Christening, Mum, Lindsay Warner from Dudley, reflects on her hospital experience at Christmas time , the support of staff at the Children’s hospital and what the future is looking like for her boys.

Two nurses at Forward Thinking Birmingham, the city’s 0-25s Community Mental Health Services, has been given the prestigious title of Queen’s Nurse (QN) by community nursing charity The Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) .  

Dr Sukhvir Wright at Aston University Institute for Health and Neurodevelopment (IHN) and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at Birmingham Children’s Hospital (BCH), has been awarded a £3.4m Career Development Award from Wellcome to research autoimmune encephalitis (AE), an inflammatory brain condition, in children.

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to have successfully supported a bid to establish one of the UK’s new National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Commercial Research Delivery Centres (CRDCs) to expand access to innovative clinical trials and deliver life-changing treatments to some of the UK’s most underserved communities.

Dr  Satish Rao, our Trust's Chief Medical Officer, is today sharing a warning about a potential ‘quad-demic’ of flu, COVID-19, RSV and norovirus, alongside three Chief Medical Officers in Birmingham and Solihull.  

Our Women’s Hospital is now home to the NHS’s first simulation suite dedicated to maternal and neonatal health, thanks to a phenomenal £1million donation from high street fashion entrepreneur George Davies via the George Davies Charitable Trust. 

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB), the city's 0-25s Mental Health Service, has joined hands with Compass, a charity providing health and wellbeing services, to deliver more Mental Health Support to school children in Birmingham.