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Sheffield Children’s joins international collaboration to advance innovation and AI in children’s healthcare

Sheffield Children’s joins international collaboration to advance innovation and AI in children’s healthcare

25 March 2026

Sheffield Children’s is proud to be part of a new international collaboration linking leading children’s hospitals across the UK and Canada to help create a healthier future for children everywhere.  The partnership launched with a visit to The Hospital...

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Sheffield Children’s celebrates one year of pioneering commercial clinical research hub

Sheffield Children’s celebrates one year of pioneering commercial clinical research hub

20 March 2026

Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has marked one year as a specialist hub delivering life-changing commercial clinical trials for children and young people. Launched in April 2025, The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Sheffield Children’s Commercial Research Delivery Centre (CRDC), aims to transform how clinical trials...

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Sheffield Children’s researchers recruit first European patient to global Dravet syndrome clinical trial

Sheffield Children’s researchers recruit first European patient to global Dravet syndrome clinical trial

17 March 2026

Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has become the first site in Europe to recruit a patient to a major international clinical trial investigating a potential new treatment for a severe form of epilepsy – Dravet syndrome.  The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Sheffield...

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Meet our trainee healthcare scientists

Meet our trainee healthcare scientists

13 March 2026

Meet Lauren and Fleur, two trainee healthcare scientists. They both work at Sheffield Children’s, and across at the University of Sheffield in the Julia Garnham Centre. They are both trainee healthcare scientists – and this week we’re shining a...

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Sheffield Children’s moves one step closer to opening The Spark at Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park 

Sheffield Children’s moves one step closer to opening The Spark at Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park 

12 March 2026

In its 150th anniversary year, Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is preparing to open The Spark, a new building at Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park that will be home to the world-leading National Centre for Child Health Technology.  The Spark...

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Celebrating over a thousand years of dedication at Sheffield Children’s 

Celebrating over a thousand years of dedication at Sheffield Children’s 

10 March 2026

In the year Sheffield Children’s celebrates its 150th anniversary, 59 colleagues celebrated incredible milestones of their own of 20, 30 and 40 years.   Together they marked an extraordinary 1,380 years of service at our Long Service Awards 2026.   Their stories span...

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Celebrating International Women’s Day 2026 at Sheffield Children’s

Celebrating International Women’s Day 2026 at Sheffield Children’s

06 March 2026

When Sheffield Children’s was founded 150 years ago, one of the promises our founders made was ‘to afford opportunities for the training of women in the special duties of children’s nursing’.  We’re proud of our roots, and the women who have been part...

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Volunteer Steve spreads World Book Day joy

Volunteer Steve spreads World Book Day joy

05 March 2026

Every Thursday, volunteer Steve takes his book trolley around the wards at Sheffield Children’s. But today is a special trip – because it’s World Book Day!   At 77, Steve brings a lifetime love of reading – and a stack of stories – to...

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Life-changing drug identified for children with rare epilepsy

Life-changing drug identified for children with rare epilepsy

05 March 2026

A new experimental treatment for children with a hard-to-treat form of epilepsy is safe and can reduce seizures dramatically, helping them lead much healthier and happier lives, the findings of a study involving Sheffield Children’s show. The trial, lead...

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