1. Patients & visitors

    1. Supporting you for free
    2. Getting here
      1. Parking
        1. Free car parking information for frequent Women's Hospital outpatient attenders
    3. Getting here
      1. Parking
    4. Clean Air Zone
    5. What to bring
    6. What to bring
    7. Women's Hospital pre-operative assessment
    8. Coming in for an operation
      1. Having a blood transfusion
      2. 'Standby' patients for Surgery
      3. Recovery
    9. Visiting and wards
      1. Children's Hospital virtual tour and maps
      2. Children's Hospital visiting
        1. Waterfall House
      3. Women's Hospital visiting
        1. Women's Hospital Maternity Unit Virtual Tour
      4. Forward Thinking Birmingham (Mental Health) visiting
      5. Infection Prevention and Control
        1. Our Infection Prevention and Control team
        2. What you can do to protect yourself and your family
        3. Parent and Patients information Leaflets
      6. How do I get free home rapid lateral flow test kits?
    10. Digital letters and text reminders
    11. Facilities
    12. Guide to virtual appointments
    13. Facilities
    14. Young people
      1. Youth Club
      2. Making friends
    15. Parent accommodation
    16. Parent accommodation
    17. Patient leaflets
    18. Patient leaflets
    19. Support and advice
      1. Access to health records
      2. AccessAble
      3. COVID-19 resources for patients and families
      4. Safeguarding
      5. Patient Experience
        1. Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS)
      6. Health and Wellbeing
        1. Stop smoking
        2. Healthy eating
        3. Physical activity
        4. Vaccinations
          1. COVID-19 Vaccination information
            1. Pregnancy and Covid-19 vaccination
            2. Young people and COVID-19 vaccination
            3. Covid-19 vaccines and fertility FAQs
        5. Home safety
        6. Mental wellbeing
        7. Extreme weather
          1. Winter extremes
          2. Heatwaves
          3. Air quality alerts
      7. Interpreting Service
      8. Reachdeck translations & Accessibility
      9. Learning disabilities
    20. Arts@BWC
    21. Ethics Advisory Group

  2. Our services

    1. Audiology
      1. Useful terms about the ear and hearing
      2. Audiology leaflets
      3. Preparing for your Audiology appointment
    2. Birmingham Children's Hospital
    3. Haematology
    4. Women's Hospital Bereavement
    5. Bereavement Services
      1. Meet the teams
      2. Children's Hospital Bereavement Services
        1. Magnolia House
      3. Women's Hospital Bereavement Services
        1. Gynaecology Bereavement Services
          1. Pregnancy termination
          2. Miscarriage Support Service
          3. Termination due to gestational complication
      4. Get in touch
    6. Bump
    7. Burns Centre
      1. Burn awareness
    8. Mental Health Services
    9. Cardiac
      1. Cardiac treatments
      2. Our Cardiac staff
      3. Cardiac leaflets
    10. Chaplaincy
      1. What do Chaplains do?
      2. Our Chaplaincy staff
      3. Women's Hospital Chaplaincy
      4. Children's Hospital Chaplaincy
      5. Chaplaincy referrals
      6. Chaplaincy bereavement support
      7. Multi Faith Cultural Advisory Group
      8. Chaplaincy videos
      9. Celebrating Christmas
        1. Our Virtual Christmas Illuminations
      10. Celebrating Easter
      11. Chicks in our chapel
    11. Children with Medical Complexities Team
    12. Clinical Photography and Design Services
      1. Our Clinical Photography and Design Services staff
    13. Craniofacial
      1. Your first appointment
      2. Speech and language therapy
      3. Our Craniofacial staff
      4. Common Questions
      5. Craniofacial leaflets
    14. Cleft Lip and Palate
      1. Our Cleft Lip and Palate staff
      2. What is cleft lip and palate?
      3. Cleft lip and palate support
      4. Cleft lip and palate patient stories
      5. Cleft Lip and Palate leaflets
    15. Dental
      1. Our Dental staff
    16. Diabetes
      1. About diabetes
      2. Diabetes clinics
      3. Our Diabetes and Endocrinology Staff
      4. The Diabetes Team
      5. Information for professionals
      6. Diabetes support and activities
      7. Diabetes resources
      8. Diasend instruction videos
      9. Diabetes leaflets
    17. Dermatology
      1. Dermatology staff
      2. Dermatology conditions
      3. Eczema information video
      4. Epidermolysis Bullosa
        1. EB information for professionals
          1. Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) course
      5. Dermatology leaflets
      6. Information for professionals
        1. Dermatology courses for professionals
      7. Dermatology research
    18. Dietetics
      1. Our Dietetics staff
      2. Dietetics information for professionals
    19. Ear, Nose and Throat
      1. Clinics, location and contact details
      2. Our Ear, Nose and Throat staff
      3. Information for professionals
      4. Other useful websites
      5. Ear, Nose and Throat leaflets
    20. Endocrinology
      1. Endocrine services
      2. Our Diabetes and Endocrinology Staff
    21. Emergency Department
      1. Our Emergency Department staff
      2. Top tips from our Emergency Department
      3. Emergency Department leaflets
    22. Eye Department
      1. Eye Department staff
      2. Eye Department Information for professionals
      3. Services and clinics
    23. Fertility Centre
      1. How to start your IVF journey
      2. Why choose us?
        1. About Birmingham Women’s Fertility Centre
        2. Success rates
        3. Costs of treatments and funding streams
      3. Meet the team
      4. About fertility
        1. Fertility in women
        2. Fertility in men
        3. How you can improve your own chances
      5. Our Tests
        1. Diagnostic tests
        2. What tests do we offer?
      6. Treatments
        1. In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF)
        2. Intra Cytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI)
        3. Compensated egg sharing
        4. Treatment with donor eggs
        5. Treatment using donor sperm
        6. Single women and same sex couples
        7. Surrogacy
        8. Ovulation induction agents
        9. Artificial insemination
        10. Surgical sperm retrieval
        11. Egg freezing
        12. Sperm freezing
        13. Andrology (semen analysis)
        14. Sperm bank
        15. Egg donation
      7. Getting in touch
    24. Forward Thinking Birmingham
      1. You've been missed
        1. Children
        2. Young People
        3. Parents and Carers
        4. Educational Professionals
        5. Other Professionals
    25. Gastroenterology and Nutrition
      1. Our Gastroenterology and Nutrition Staff
      2. Information for professionals
      3. Gastroenterology leaflets
    26. General Paediatrics
      1. General Paediatrics staff
    27. Genetics
      1. Information for patients - Genetics
      2. Leaflets, support groups and further information
        1. General Genetics leaflets
        2. Cancer Genetics leaflets
      3. Information for professionals - Genetics
      4. Clinical Genetics staff
      5. Neurofibromatosis Nurses
      6. Haemoglobinopathy Screening Practitioners
      7. Contact the Clinical Genetics team
      8. Genetics clinics location maps
    28. Gynaecology
      1. Early Pregnancy Assessment and Acute Gynaecology
      2. Reproductive Medicine
      3. Menopause services
        1. The Menopause team
        2. Menopause clinics
        3. Referrals and appointments
        4. Menopause advice and results
        5. Menopause resources
        6. HRT supply shortages update
      4. Gynae-Oncology
      5. Endometriosis
      6. Ambulatory Gynaecology Care
      7. Women's Physiotherapy
        1. Women's Physiotherapy leaflets and videos
      8. Urogynaecology
        1. Urogynaecology clinics
      9. Tommy’s National Centre for Miscarriage Research
        1. Tommy’s research priorities
        2. Tommy’s supporting you
      10. Gynaecology leaflets
    29. Infant Feeding Team
      1. Infant feeding educational videos
      2. Infant feeding Frequently Asked Questions
      3. Feeding your baby & building close, loving relationships
        1. Skin to skin
        2. Breastfeeding
        3. Formula feeding your baby
    30. Hand and Upper Limb
      1. Publications
      2. Post-clinic services
      3. Fundraising and how to support us
      4. Activities for Children and Families
      5. Hand and Upper Limb Clinics
      6. Information for professionals
      7. Questionnaire for parents with children aged 5-9
    31. Health in Mind
      1. Information for professionals
      2. Health in Mind/Clinical Psychology leaflets
    32. Hospital School
      1. Hospital School staff
    33. Inpatient CAMHS
      1. Inpatient CAMHS wards
      2. Information for professionals
    34. KIDS/Neonatal Transfer Service
      1. KIDS/NTS staff
      2. KIDS/NTS information for professionals
      3. KIDS/NTS leaflets
    35. Liver Unit
      1. Our Liver Unit staff
      2. Ward 8
      3. Liver Unit contact and location
    36. Maternity
      1. Your antenatal care
        1. Your appointments
        2. Tests and screening
          1. Why have I been asked to come for a screening?
          2. The Lucina Test
        3. Your scans
      2. Diabetes Antenatal team
        1. Your glucose tolerance test
        2. Parent education
      3. Pregnant with COVID-19
      4. Fetal Medicine Centre
      5. Your birth options
        1. Home Birth
          1. Home Birth Workshop
          2. Home Birth Stories
        2. Birth Centre
        3. Caesarean Section (C-section)
        4. Delivery Suite
        5. COVID-19 pre-admission testing for pregnant women
      6. Maternity leaflets
      7. Maternity Voices Partnership
      8. Going home
    37. Medical Secretaries (Women's Hospital)
    38. Midlands Hearing Implant Programme
      1. Your child’s treatment journey
      2. Useful website links
      3. Information for professionals
      4. Information About Implants
    39. Neonatal
      1. Information for parents and visitors
      2. Going home
      3. The Neonatal team
      4. Human Milk Bank
      5. Neonatal Unit leaflets
    40. Neurology
      1. Our Neurology staff
      2. Our Neuro-immunology team
      3. Our neurometabolic and neurogenetic team
      4. Neurology patient leaflets
      5. Neurophysiology patient leaflets
      6. Epilepsy Surgery
        1. Meeting the team
        2. Children’s Epilepsy Surgery Service pathway
        3. Investigations
        4. Clinics
        5. Neuropsychology
        6. Patient stories
          1. Millie's epilepsy surgery story
          2. Finn’s epilepsy surgery story
          3. May’s epilepsy surgery story
          4. James’s epilepsy surgery story
      7. Neurology information for professionals
      8. Stuart Green memorial lectures and bursary
    41. Maxillofacial
      1. Our Maxillofacial Staff
    42. Metabolics
      1. Metabolic disorders
      2. Metabolics research
      3. Newborn screening
      4. Contact details
      5. Useful metabolic websites
    43. Neurophysiology
      1. Neurophysiology staff
    44. Occupational Therapy
      1. Occupational Therapy staff
      2. How we assess you
      3. Occupational Therapy information for professionals
        1. Advanced Occupational Therapy Practice
      4. Occupational Therapy services
      5. Occupational Therapy leaflets
    45. Oncology and Haematology
      1. Contact Numbers
      2. Where to find us
      3. Oncology Team
      4. Haematology Team
        1. Haemophilia Unit
      5. Paediatric Oncology Shared Care Units (POSCUs)
      6. Cancer Nurse Specialist (Key Working Team)
      7. Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Service
      8. Tumour Registry
      9. Oncology and Haematology Outpatients
      10. Ward 18 and Ward 19
        1. What to expect as an inpatient
      11. What to do if your child becomes unwell
      12. Going Home
      13. General Practitioners (GP)
      14. Oncology and Haematology Department – Research
      15. West Midlands Regional Children’s Tumour Registry
      16. Long Term Follow-up
      17. Oncology and Haematology leaflets
      18. Useful Websites
    46. Outpatients
      1. Phlebotomy/blood tests
      2. Outpatients and Phlebotomy leaflets
    47. Orthopaedics
      1. Orthopaedics and Trauma leaflets
    48. Paediatric Surgery and Urology
      1. Paediatric Surgery staff
      2. Paediatric Surgery treatments
        1. Minimally invasive surgery in Waterfall House
      3. Neonatal Surgical Outreach Service
      4. Paediatric Surgery leaflets and videos
      5. Clinical observerships for doctors
    49. Palliative Care Team
    50. Pain Management leaflets
    51. PICU - Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
      1. Our PICU staff
      2. Staying with your child in intensive care
      3. Going to intensive care after surgery
      4. Information for professionals
    52. Play
      1. The Play and Admissions Centre
      2. Entertainment
    53. Private Patients
      1. Overseas patients
    54. Pharmacy
    55. Physiotherapy and Orthotics
      1. Physiotherapy staff
      2. Physiotherapy services
      3. Physiotherapy information for professionals
      4. Physiotherapy placements and work experience
      5. Physiotherapy leaflets
    56. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
      1. Ear Reconstruction
        1. Ear reconstruction clinics, wards and treatments
        2. Ear Reconstruction staff
        3. Ear reconstruction information for professionals
      2. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery leaflets
    57. Renal/Nephrology
      1. Our Renal staff
    58. Respiratory
      1. Facilities and services
      2. Respiratory leaflets
      3. Research and education
    59. Radiology
      1. Radiology queries
      2. Interventional Radiology
      3. Women's Hospital Radiology leaflets
      4. Children's Hospital Radiology leaflets
    60. Rare Diseases
      1. Rare Diseases location and facilities
      2. Our Rare Disease Staff
      3. Rare disease services and clinics
        1. Wolfram Syndrome
        2. Alström Syndrome
      4. Rare diseases information for professionals
    61. Rheumatology
      1. Rheumatology staff
      2. The Rheumatology team
      3. Rheumatology clinics and wards
      4. Useful links for Rheumatology patients
      5. Rheumatology Case Study
      6. Rheumatology information for professionals
    62. Speech and Language Therapy
      1. Speech and Language Therapy staff
      2. Speech and Language Therapy teams
    63. Vital Services (Estates and Facilities)

  3. Professionals & partners

    1. Referrals
    2. Urgent paediatric referrals
    3. Research
      1. Clinical Research Facilities
        1. Support for research studies
        2. Accessing the Clinical Research Facility
        3. Public engagement at the Clinical Research Facility
      2. CCP-UK Patient Notification Form
      3. Research Foundation
      4. Research trial management
      5. HRA Approval
      6. Applying for R&D funding
      7. RAPID project
        1. What technology is used in RAPID?
        2. Kaleb's RAPID story
        3. Georgia's RAPID story
      8. Research Contacts
      9. NeuroCOVID study
    4. Laboratories
      1. Pathology Services department
        1. Celebrating our Biomedical Scientists
          1. Meet Angela Kumari - Senior Biomedical Scientist
          2. Meet Ben Done - Specialist Biomedical Scientist
          3. Meet Chijioke Onyeama – Biomedical Scientist
          4. Meet Chris Charlton - Senior Biomedical Scientist
          5. Meet Fin Terry - Senior Biomedical Scientist
          6. Meet Kavita Akhter - Biomedical Scientist
          7. Meet Matthew Wakeman, Specialist Biomedical Scientist
          8. Meet Sukhjit Purewal - Specialist Biomedical Scientist
          9. Meet Usman Ahmed - Biomedical Scientist
          10. Meet Zaiba Asif - Specialist Biomedical Scientist
        2. Our pathology services
        3. Requesting pathology tests and sending samples
      2. West Midlands Regional Genetics Laboratory
        1. Rare Disease and Reproductive Genomics
          1. Core Genomic testing
          2. National Genomics Directory for Rare Disease
          3. Whole Genome Sequencing –Rare Disease C&S GLH
          4. Prenatal-reproductive genomic testing
          5. Endocrine Genomic testing
          6. Metabolic Genomic testing
          7. Neurology Genomic testing
          8. Other specialised Genomic testing
        2. Cancer Genomics
          1. Genomics Directories for Somatic and Inherited Cancers
          2. Whole Genome Sequencing - Somatic Cancer
          3. Solid Cancer Genomic testing
            1. Rare Disease Solid Cancer Genomic testing
            2. Genomic Testing in Adult Solid Tumours
            3. Genomic Testing in Paediatric Tumours
            4. Genomic Testing in Neurological Tumours
            5. Genomic Testing in Sarcomas
          4. Haematological Cancer
          5. DPYD Pharmacogenomics Testing
        3. Research and development
        4. Education and training
        5. Quality at the West Midlands Regional Genetics Laboratory
    5. West Midlands CYPMHS Provider Collaborative
      1. Surveys for Inpatient Care in the West Midlands
        1. Parent and Carer Survey - Inpatient Care in the West Midlands
        2. Young Person's Survey - Inpatient Care in the West Midlands
    6. Education and training
      1. Elective placements
      2. Systemic practice and family therapy training
      3. Birmingham PathologyTraining Centre
        1. Birmingham Pathology Training Centre Courses
      4. Education Resource Centre
        1. Education Resource Centre - conference and events facilities
        2. Education Resource Centre courses
    7. Centre for Paediatric Spiritual Care
      1. Meet the CPSC team
      2. Supporting our staff
      3. Spiritual care research
      4. Training and conferences
      5. Spiritual care activities and resources
      6. Spiritual Play
      7. Centre Library
      8. Books and leaflets
    8. Library

  4. About us

    1. Inclusion and Diversity
      1. Advocacy
      2. Equality and Diversity
      3. Advice, Support with Benefits and Help with Energy Costs
      4. Disability and additional needs
      5. PALS and Complaints
      6. Arts and Culture Newsletter
      7. LGBTQ+ Resources
      8. BIPOC Resources
      9. ADHD, Autism and Neurodivergence Support
      10. Disability resources
      11. Religious and Cultural resources
      12. General EDI resources and support links
    2. News
      1. Healthcare Science Week (2023)
      2. Women and Girls in Science Day (Saturday 11 February)
      3. A (Christmas) Day In The Life
      4. Childhood Cancer Awareness Month 2022
      5. Talk BWC
        1. A few minutes with
      6. Going for Gold - The British Transplant Games
      7. Our 5th Birthday
        1. New look for birthday celebration
        2. Creating bonds for the last five years - BWC fifth birthday
        3. Thank you to our Support Teams, a message from Phil Foster
        4. Tracey's proud of united voice
        5. Raffaela Goodby looks back at the BWC EDI journey
        6. Reflecting on the past five years with Elaine Kirwan
        7. Reflecting on the past five years with Yvonne Millard MBE
        8. Triage Teddy present hunt
      8. Children's Hospital 160th Birthday
        1. Celebrating our Clinical Success
          1. Celebrating Clinical Success – Our award-winning Major Trauma Team
          2. Celebrating Clinical Success - Our incredible IMD department
          3. Celebrating Clinical Success - Our Outstanding Liver Unit
        2. Being a part of BC
          1. Being a part of BC - 'I always knew I would return'
          2. Being a part of BC - Two of our Sisters share their story
          3. Being a part of BC – Shaping our own paths with Nurse Associate Ellie
    3. Vision and Values
    4. Sustainability and Net Zero Carbon
      1. Our pledge
      2. Carbon pie
        1. Building energy
        2. Anaesthetics & inhalers
        3. Water & Waste
        4. Personal Travel
          1. Clean Air Day 2022
        5. Business Travel
        6. Medicines
        7. Medical Equipment
        8. Other equipment
        9. Construction & Food
        10. Other services
      3. Climate adaptation
      4. Carbon critters
    5. Board of Directors
      1. Board meetings and minutes
      2. Sarah-Jane Marsh - ten years as Chief Executive
    6. Our Council of Governors
      1. Council of Governors meetings
    7. Annual General Meeting
    8. Leading the way nationally and globally
    9. Major building works
    10. Our rich history
      1. Women's and Children's early history
    11. Publications and reports
      1. Equality, diversity and inclusion
      2. Safe staffing reports
    12. Freedom of Information
      1. Publication Scheme
        1. Who we are and what we do
        2. What we spend and how we spend it
        3. What our priorities are and how we are doing?
        4. How we make decisions
        5. Our policies and procedures
        6. Lists and registers
        7. The services we offer
        8. What is not included in the Publication Scheme
        9. Charging
        10. Exemptions
        11. Records Management
        12. Copyright
        13. Equality and Diversity
    13. Media Centre
      1. Filming and photography requests
      2. Condition checks
      3. Life and Birth
    14. Terms and conditions
      1. Privacy Policy
      2. Cookies Policy
      3. Modern Slavery Statement

  5. Getting involved

    1. Give us your feedback
      1. Complaints
    2. Become a volunteer
      1. Our volunteer roles
      2. Application process
      3. Volunteering safety
      4. #iwill Youth Volunteering
      5. Frequently Asked Questions
      6. Contact our Volunteering team
    3. Become a member
    4. Join our youth advisory groups
      1. YPAG
      2. Think4Brum
    5. Family and Patient Advisory Council
    6. Neonatal Parent Advisory Group
    7. Maternity Voices Partnership
    8. Shape your future – Become a Young Research Champion today
    9. Fundraise for us
      1. Birmingham Women's Charity
      2. Birmingham Children's Charity
    10. Monthly staff awards
    11. Women's Hospital CareCart donations

  6. Working here

    1. What our staff think about working here
      1. Doctor’s Day 2022
    2. How we support and develop you
    3. Maternity recruitment
    4. Clinical excellence
    5. Recruitment
      1. The recruitment journey
      2. Recruitment open days
      3. Theatres Recruitment
    6. Careers in paediatrics for adult nurses
    7. Apprenticeships
      1. Clinical Healthcare Apprenticeship
      2. Customer Service Practitioner Apprenticeship
    8. Celebrating BWC Spirit
      1. Thank you to our patients and families
      2. BWC Spirit Patient Thanks
    9. Aspire@BWC
      1. Work Experience
      2. Virtual Work Experience
      3. Employment for people with a Learning Disability
      4. Supporting schools
      5. Useful Links
    10. BWC Spirit Awards
    11. Service Contribution Awards

  7. Contact us

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