News

Community Midwife Angela Henry from the Quinton Lane Team first joined BWC in 2007 as a student midwife on the 18-month course, to become a midwife having been a qualified registered nurse previously. Angela shares what enticed her career path and exactly what it means to specialise in Community care.

We said hello to three-year-old Reya Mae, our 100th patient of our Super Sedation Project, and mum Maureen Bent after they visited us for the celebrations. The Super Sedation initiative offers young patients that ability to try and alternative form of sedation that is quicker, easier and less distressing to administer for young children like Reya-Mae.

Sumaya Bibi, Community Midwife and Perinatal Mental Health Champion discusses how she has gone from strength to strength since gathering experience across various roles at our Women’s Hospital Midwifery services.

Thousands of colleagues across our Trust shared their thoughts on life as part of the BWC Family in the annual NHS Staff Survey and the results have been released.

A father has given his daughter the ‘Gift of Life’ after donating a kidney which was then transplanted by the expert team at Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

The British Medical Association is taking industrial action across the UK as part of its dispute over pay with the Government.  

Postgraduate Doctors (Junior Doctors) will be striking for three days from Monday 13 March. 

When Arthur was just five weeks old, Mum Roxanne from Walsall was told he had a rare condition called Hydrocephalus, a build-up of fluid in the brain that causes severe pressure in the head.

Roxanne spoke to us about her son’s journey for Hydrocephalus Awareness Week (6 March – 12 March).

You may have already heard the news that our Lead Retention Midwife has been crowned Star of the Month at our Trust for her contributions to the new ‘Switch Up’ scheme that she has been working on with our Communications team, to support our midwives in diversifying in their roles.

Mia, a brave teenage patient at our Children’s Hospital recently received Spinal Fusion surgery for Scoliosis, a challenging condition which causes her spine to curve. Before surgery, Mia’s spine had a curvature of 82 degrees meaning she required a titanium rod to realign her spine from the neck down.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published its report into our Trust following an inspection of services, which took place between June and October 2022.