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Neonatal Intensive Care nurse, Taslima Choudhury shared her insights with the British Medical Journal this month for World Prematurity Awareness Month on reducing separation between families and babies during their Neonatal Intensive Care journey. Parent involvement can become challenging when birth is premature, where babies often need additional support from clinicians and medical machines to ensure they become healthy enough to go home to their families.  

Professors at the University of Birmingham and University College London have taken part in ground-breaking research in collaboration with teams at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust (BWC) to improve patient outcomes in early psychosis. 

Jess Phillips, local MP and champion of women's health, recently paid Birmingham Women's Hospital a visit.

A multi-million-pound renovation of our specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) inpatient care, based at our Parkview Clinic in Moseley, Birmingham, will begin this December.

Our clinicians have been working hard to wean sick babies off feeding ‘nasogastric’ tubes and oxygen therapy safely, through consistent monitoring, parent training, support and transitional care.  

To mark Virtual Reality (VR) Day, we share how our clinicians have been trialing the use of ‘VR’ with young people and children to reduce anxiety during minor medical procedures. Brave X 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.  

Today (Wednesday 17 November) is World Prematurity day, we would love to share the challenging but inspiration journey of mother of five-month-old twins Grayson and Jenson who gave birth to her boys at our Women’s Hospital. 

In 1921, insulin was discovered by Sir Frederick Banting to support both those with type one and type two diabetes across the world. This life-saving discovery has helped diabetics to effectively regulate their blood sugar levels and store excess glucose for energy. 

Introducing Sandy the Sustainability Elephant, the new figurehead of all things sustainable and green in our Trust.

Dr Satish Rao, Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Respiratory Consultant at Birmingham Children’s Hospital met with children and young people at Saltley Academy last week for a workshop about the links between asthma and air pollution.