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Here at BWC, we are proud to have adopted the See ME First campaign - a commitment to being anti-racist and anti-discriminative. 

Launched across our Trust as part of Race Equality Week (7 - 13 February), the initiative is championed by our GUARDIANS staff network and involves wearing a badge to signify to patients, families and colleagues they can offer anti-discrimination support when needed. 

Preet Kaur Gill, local labour MP for Edgbaston, visited Birmingham Women’s Hospital last week to thank staff for their response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Last July, our Trust proudly signed the ‘Pregnancy Loss Pledge’, a policy created by the Miscarriage Association supporting our colleagues by offering them a range of compassionate support, to help with their pregnancy and parenting journeys. This includes additional paid leave for colleagues who have lost a child at any stage of pregnancy. We have received many requests from other organisations for guidance on how to implement this policy into their own work cultures, to show an extra level of compassion for their teams.  

Paws for Thought, a unique link-up between Forward Thinking Birmingham and the RSPCA, is proving to be a hit with those taking part.

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BWC has started an important new chapter on its sustainability journey.

The Trust Board has approved an ambitious new ‘Green Plan’ setting key targets to tackle climate change, recognising the impact it has on the health and wellbeing of women, children and families.

We spoke with Dr Jackson Kirkman-Brown, the Scientific Lead of Fertility at our Women’s Hospital who shared important insights on why sperm donation is generally misconceived as an act of ‘money-making’ when in truth, spermatozoa donation is a generous act to support families and single people who are unable to have families of their own without clinical intervention.

Starting this month, our Paediatric Intensive Care Research team will be recruiting for  a new British Heart Foundation funded £570,000 clinical study, led by Cardiac Surgery at our Children’s Hospital with Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit

Patients and colleagues have come together to mark the start of work on a £4.6 million expansion of the Trust’s Parkview Mental Health Clinic in Birmingham

This week, we share how our clinicians have been trialing the use of virtual reality (VR)’ with young people and children to reduce anxiety during minor medical procedures. Brave year old Jack in the tiger VR headset, kindly agreed to test the experience to see if this would make those injections a little bit less scary whilst visiting us at our Children’s Hospital.