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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

Patients and colleagues have come together to mark the start of work on a £4.6 million expansion of the Trust’s Parkview Mental Health Clinic in Birmingham

This week, we share how our clinicians have been trialing the use of virtual reality (VR)’ with young people and children to reduce anxiety during minor medical procedures. Brave 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.  

For Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, we spoke with our Clinical Lead for our Colposcopy and Vulval services, consultant and gynaecologist, Jennifer Byrom who shares her thoughts on the importance of attending your appointments and valuing your cervical health.

At BWC we are proud to have a Chaplaincy team who are available to provide religious, spiritual and pastoral care and support 24-hours a day for people of all faiths and beliefs.

This week we spoke with Fiona Terry, our Neonatal Intensive Care unit Governance Lead and Dudu Nyathi, our Fetal Monitoring and Surveillance Midwife, representing the Avoiding Term Admissions into Neonatal Units (ATAIN) project team at our Women’s Hospital.

Patients and families are being urged to continue attending planned appointments at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s hospitals this winter.