Walsall school raise £800 for Birmingham Children's Hospital

Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides a comprehensive service to children, young people and their families.

We are one of the leading paediatric teaching centres in the country, with international research and development in areas such as:

• Childhood cancer studies
• Liver disease
• Infection, inflammation and immunity
• Molecular genetics of childhood conditions (how these are passed on, and how they cause disease in the body in terms of chemistry)
• Nutrition, growth and metabolism in childhood
• Drug use in children
• Relapsed and refractory acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
• Infant neuroblastoma
• Infant brain tumours

Our facilities include:

• A 22 bedded Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
• A centre of excellence for children with cancer, cardiac, liver and renal disease
• A national transplant centre
• 280 inpatient and day-case beds including Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
• 38 specialties and supporting departments
• An Emergency Department dealing with over 45,000 patients a year
• Twelve theatres
• Three MRI scanners
• A CT Scanner
• An endoscopy suite
• A catheter laboratory with digital imaging facility
• Burn, Neonatal Surgery and Education Centre
• Wellcome Clinical Research Facility
• Renal Unit
• Teenage Cancer Trust Unit
• Ronald McDonald House (parent and family accommodation).