Many surgical techniques, treatments, and technologies used today were mere ideas just a few decades ago. Charitable donations are vital to help us provide the latest and most innovative equipment for treating our children.
Here are just some of the ways you have helped support Birmingham Children’s Hospital purchase new state-of-the-art equipment.
Thanks to an incredible donation of over £1million from Children with Cancer UK, in partnership with Kwik-Fit, children and young people living with cancer from across the West Midlands, Oxfordshire and parts of Southern England can now benefit from improved genetic testing following the purchase of a highthroughput sequencing machine. Read more
Gifts from some of our generous supporters enabled us to purchase new state-of-the-art echo machines for our Children’s Hospital’s world-leading heart unit. The machines use ultrasound technology to create and record a moving image of a patient’s heart. It is a non-invasive process which, unlike x-rays, does not use radiation. Read more
Thanks to the wonderful generosity of the Clive and Sylvia Richards Charity, we were able to invest in new Interventional Radiology and Bi-Plane technology at our Children’s Hospital. Read more
With your help we do more for our young patients by providing many pieces of equipment that have improved the patient experience, changed and in some cases, saved young lives. Read more
£100k donated from the generous support of charitable trusts has allowed us to purchase a Fibroscanner for the Liver Unit. Read more