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A new study has removed barriers to disadvantaged children attending their hospital appointments to get the care they need.

Join us in our mission to share milk across the UK to support sick babies across our national neonatal systems.

Student or Band 5 Midwives across the country will be looking to complete their 6-12 month midwifery preceptorship, which allows newly qualified staff to transition to becoming a fully qualified professional midwife.

Globally, 200 million women and girls have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) across 30 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Despite misconceptions, FGM is a cultural procedure and is not a religious ritual – however, some practitioners use religious text to justify female circumcision in women’s health.

A 10-year-old from Wolverhampton is dreaming of skating to ice hockey stardom after overcoming the challenges he’s faced throughout this life due to a rare condition that’s meant he’s needed seven operations at Birmingham Children’s Hospital.

For Cervical Cancer Awareness Week, we caught up with Dr Philip Tooz-Hobson, Consultant Gynaecologist at our Women’s Hospital to address some of the myths around having your cervical screening smear, to assess female sexual health.

We caught up with Alison Rea, Bereavement Midwife at our Women’s Hospital who took us through her role and how we support families after losing a child. 

Are you on the cusp of bringing home your little bundle of joy or doing all of the preparation needed to make sure you have all of the knowledge before the big day? It’s an incredibly exciting time but we understand that it can also be overwhelming to make the transition into parenthood.

Birthing teams across our Women’s Hospital have joined together to learn more about ‘birthing biomechanics’ to further support expectant mums during labour.