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We’ve been fortunate to speak with one of our couples who have been helped by our Women’s Hospital teams through fertility treatment to achieve their pregnancy. We’re so grateful to Kelly and Myrone for sharing their powerful story and allowing us to share it.

A team of our expert neurosurgeons has successfully performed the first ever Pial Synangiosis – a complex brain surgery to treat the rare condition, Moyamoya disease, in which the blood vessels (internal carotid arteries) that supply blood to the brain become narrowed.

Upgrading work on two operating theatres at Birmingham Women’s Hospital will commence next week aimed at improving the environment for our women and their families.

NHS app making it easier to make healthier swaps January saw the launch of the new NHS Food Scanner App, as part of its ‘Better Health’ children’s nutrition campaign.

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.

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