News

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB), the city’s  unique mental health service, is celebrating five years of putting young people at the heart of developing their care.

Our first Big Build online survey received 401 responses from staff, patients, caregivers and local residents, helping us to create a picture of what is important to you for the Big Build.

Sarah-Jane Marsh, our Chief Executive, visited our Mental Health Services Parkview Clinic to speak to colleagues and young people in Urgent Care and inpatient Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) about their experience of an extremely busy and challenging year.

Alfie Rixon, a patient at our Children’s Hospital, has won the BBC’s Young Reporter competition in the Midlands after documenting his experience with osteosarcoma and learning to walk again following the amputation of the lower part of his leg.

Our Trust has launched a new Virtual Work Experience programme for teenagers to prevent opportunities being missed during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Teams at our Women’s Hospital have played a huge part in developing a pioneering maternity triage system, which is now available to maternity teams across the UK.

We’re proud to be celebrating International Women’s Day today (Monday 8 March) and honouring the fantastic female role models who work at our hospitals.

With all children and young people returning to school in March, it’s now more important than ever to follow vital advice to ensure those with asthma remain symptom free and their condition well controlled.

Here at BWC, we are a proud supporter of the NHS rainbow badges initiative, launched across our Trust in 2019 and adopted by hundreds of our team.

Today (15 February)  is International Childhood Cancer Day and we wanted to share the inspirational story of 3-year-old Leighton Tabbott, a patient on Ward 18 at our Birmingham Children's Hospital.