News

The safety of our patients, their families and our staff is of paramount importance to us. Following the national issue emerging around the use of cladding, we have been checking the cladding used on all of our buildings. After...

Since opening in June 2016, the Outpatient Parenteral Antiobiotic Therapy (OPAT) service has been administering intravenous antibiotics to outpatients in the hospital and in the community. Many of these patients would have otherwise been staying on a ward while...

Following a successful pilot where mental health specialists from Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust worked with schools to improve emotional health, the programme is rolling out across the city and has been held up by NHS England as an...

A life-saving fluoroscopy suite, funded by the Herd of Sheffield sculpture trail, has been unveiled at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. The scanning equipment, which provides moving X-ray images to help diagnose a variety of life-threatening and life-limiting conditions, was funded by...

Families are invited to come and give their views about the future of children’s surgery and critical care in England. The discussion event, being held at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, is being hosted by NHS England. It is open to...

Sheffield Children’s held both a birthday party and an election last week, as our Youth Forum marked its first birthday. Inspiring young people from Sheffield and beyond have been giving their time to the group to help to shape...

We realise Manchester is not that far away from Sheffield and some South Yorkshire families may have been caught up in some way in the unfortunate Manchester attack that happened on the evening of 22 May 2017. Perhaps you or your...

Sheffield Children’s has been unaffected by the cyber attack but we have taken some precautionary measures to keep core services running and patient data secure. While services are running as normal, there may be some delays and minor disruption....

We are delighted to announce that five Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Trainees have started in our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in April 2017. They will be offering low-level cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) intervention for children and young...

People from across South Yorkshire are being invited to play a part in the future of children’s healthcare by nominating themselves as governors at Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust . There are eight public positions available, representing areas around...

Gastro-intestinal (GI) bleeds can be rapid and difficult to stop, requiring expert surgical intervention. They can be life threatening for children. Sheffield Children’s Hospital’s GI Unit is recognised as the leader in this field world wide and complex GI...

Two members of the Trust’s Youth Forum visited our Children’s Clinical Research Facility on 15 March. They were shown around the department by Research Nurse Susan Lenthall, who explained the various ways Sheffield Children’s is conducting research to improve...