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How did you spend your summer holidays? Some of the children and young people at our fabulous Becton School at our Becton Centre spent their time taking part in a range of exciting activities. As part of a packed...

MyCare is Sheffield Children’s quarterly newsletter. You can either pick up a printed copy or read about some of the interesting stories and updates from the past few months below. In the Autumn 2023 issue you can read: Aoife’s...

James has been a patient at Sheffield Children’s since he was nine months old and our staff here have seen him grow up over the last 10 years whilst we’ve been treating his asthma. At our recent Super Saturday...

We’re at Meadowhall and Pitsmoor Adventure Park today! Vaccinations are available at Meadowhall (details below) and lots of useful information and support is on offer. Conkers are already falling from trees which can mean only one thing – September...

Meet Angela. She’s the amazing Professional Lead for our Paediatric Liaison Service at Sheffield Children’s, and also a previous patient! Angela has over 30 years of nursing experience and started working at the Trust as a Student Health Visitor...

Meet Helen and her daughter Sophia – they’ve been taking part in a research study called the Harmonie study, that looks into how strongly babies can be protected from serious illness due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection by...

In 2021, when he was just eleven months old, Edward became one of the first patients in the UK to receive the potentially life-saving gene therapy, Zolgensma, at Sheffield Children’s. Now nearly three, Edward is “doing amazingly well”, said...

Consultants across the country will be taking strike action for two days from 7am on Thursday 24 August, to 7am on Saturday 26 August.  We know this may be causing our patients and families to worry about planned appointments...

Our award-winning health inequalities work and our future plans for the helipad and Major Trauma Centre will be in the spotlight at Sheffield Children’s annual members meeting on Wednesday, 13 September. The meeting, which is being held virtually, is...

Following the Lucy Letby trial our thoughts are with all the families affected, who have suffered pain and anguish that few of us can imagine. These events have shocked colleagues across the NHS and at Sheffield Children’s, just as...

Hip hip hooray! Our fantastic Youth Forum celebrated their 7th birthday this week and we threw a party in our Joy Garden to say a huge thank you for all their hard work. The Youth Forum are a team...

Meet Ben – a trained biomedical scientist and senior clinical scientist here at Sheffield Children’s. Ben works in our regional newborn screening laboratory where testing takes place for all babies born in South Yorkshire, parts of the Humber, East...