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Seventeen healthcare professionals from across the country have helped produce a multi-language video promoting a world-leading research study which is helping to detect more than 200 rare genetic conditions in newborns. 

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Patron of national children’s charity WellChild, today visited our Children’s Hospital to meet seriously ill children and their families who are benefiting from the charity’s specialist support programmes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Researchers are appealing for new parents to share pictures of their baby’s poo – in the hope it will help with early detection of rare liver disease. 

Our Complications of Excess Weight (CEW) Service hosted a Family Fun Day bringing together families and staff for a day of connection.  

The Young Persons Advisory Group (YPAG) recently took centre stage at a session hosted by the Children’s Hospital Alliance, offering a fresh and thoughtful perspective on the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine.  

A drug that can delay the onset of type 1 diabetes is being made available on the NHS after one our patients were the first to receive the medication in the UK.