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Young Poppy, a patient at our Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Forward Thinking Birmingham, has inspired her older sister Amelie to write a book all about challenges the nine-year-old faces.

For more than a decade our Trust has been supporting apprenticeships and we’re as passionate, which is why this week between 8 and 14 February we’ll be joining others to promote their many benefits during National Apprenticeships Week.

Today is World Cancer Day and 14 year old Blake Smith is celebrating it in the best way possible – he is ringing the bell.

We're proudly supporting Time to Talk Day (3 February)

This week we're supporting Children's Mental Health Week (1-7 February). 

Our fantastic home birth team are still here supporting our women and families during these unprecedented times. Whilst in some Trusts, home birth services are suspended our BWC home birth team is proud to have been able to continue the service safely throughout the pandemic.

Research led by our Trust and the University of Birmingham has offered a new insight into the biological mechanisms of the long-term positive health effects of breastfeeding in preventing disorders of the immune system in later life.

A father and daughter from Birmingham born with the same rare condition born 35 years apart have both undergone life-saving surgery at our Children’s Hospital. Surgical teams in the 80s and today used differing but pioneering techniques that show the incredible progress that continues to be made within the NHS.

Academic Consultant in Paediatric Cardiac Surgery, Mr Nigel Drury, has been awarded the Hunterian Professorship for his work on myocardial protection during heart surgery in children.