Officially launched in February 2017, Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust brings two BHP partners, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Birmingham Women’s Hospital, together under one united NHS Foundation Trust – the first of its kind in the UK.
The integration of these Trusts follows months of close working to develop shared goals for the best women’s and children’s healthcare, built around the whole family, improving care for many generations of families to come.
The Trust employs 6,000 staff, with UK and world-leading surgeons, doctors, nurses, midwives and other allied healthcare professional on our team working together to provide the best possible care to thousands of patients each year.
This new combined organisation will play an integral role at the heart of Birmingham Health Partners and will provide the very best of family-centric care for Birmingham and beyond.
Spotlight
Tommy’s National Centre for Miscarriage Research
Tommy’s National Centre for Miscarriage Research offers specialist care for women and couples experiencing pregnancy losses. Its research is focused on answering key questions surrounding miscarriage: why did it happen; will it happen again; can it be stopped; and how it can be dealt with emotionally. Learn more about the Centre.
Rare Diseases
BWC is home to the UK’s first rare diseases centre for children. It treats around 9,000 young patients with more than 500 different rare diseases from across the UK and has 11 highly-specialised services. The centre offers coordinated, multidisciplinary and multi-specialty rare disease clinics together with peer support and consistent access to research, information and treatment. Learn more about BWC’s rare disease centre.
NIHR/Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility
The CRF at Birmingham Children’s Hospital supports the delivery of academic and commercial clinical research studies, enabling children and young people to take part in high quality, safe and ethically approved clinical research. This might include supporting a clinical trial for a potential new medicine or research to learn more about how a childhood disease progresses over time. Visit the CRF site to learn more.