‘Grief is the price we pay for love’ said by the Queen after 9/11 - a beautiful quote from a wonderful, amazing lady - RIP x

Happy Diwali to all those colleagues, friends and family celebrating today 🌟🪔🌟@bhamcommunity

Congratulations to Dr Sukhpreet Baidwan, Lead Doctor for Children in Care, Community Paediatrics - such a well deserved #BCHCVIP award for clinical service unsung hero. @bhamcommunity Neal McCathie Claire Paintain

Congratulations to Dr Gina Thurgood, Lead Doctor for Community Paediatrics and also working as part of the NDP Team - such a well deserved #BCHCVIP award for clinical leader of the year. @bhamcommunity Neal McCathie Claire Paintain

Congratulations to Dawn Clougher - Comm Paeds & NDP Operational Support Manager and all the NDP-Healios ASD admin, co-ordinators and all the team for winning the Non Clinical team of the Year VIP - such a well deserved #BCHCVIP award @bhamcommunity Neal McCathie Claire Paintain

Amazing evening at the BCHC VIP awards, all finalists from all divisions should be very proud of themselves. Huge well done to Gina & Sukhpreet (comm paeds), Neurodevelopmental non clinical team, and Lorraine (OT) from C&F division for winning their categories 😊 Claire Paintain

Lovely evening #BCHCVIP awards. Congratulations to all finalists. Inspirational work & dedication by individuals & teams. Fantastic positivity in the room. To @beckycrowther & team for organising a great night, Des Coleman & to all handing out awards @bhamcommunity Richard Kirby

🌐 #BCHC The Neurodevelopmental Pathway (NDP) Team proud to announce launch of #ADHD & #ASD website for families & professionals 1 Dec 22 bit.ly/BCHC-NDP Sarah Acton 💙🇺🇦 Richard Kirby Jo Peasland ✔️ Info on referrals & processes ✔️ Resources ✔️ Helpful videos ✔️ Signposting

Absolutely fantastic resources on here. Great development and support for children and families. The video on ASD called amazing thing happen if really easy to understand. Well done to everyone involved in this Lorraine Galligan Claire Paintain Neal McCathie

A fantastic day spent at the Community Paediatric’s Away Day - inspirational talks by all, celebrating the achievements of the last 12 months and setting out plans & direction for the future - big thank you to Louise Tomkinson for pulling it all together👍 @bhamcommunity Claire Paintain

Great day at the West Midlands BACCH & BACD Regional Meeting. Fantastic talk to start day by Laura Johnston (ST4 BCHC dental) and well done to Liz Venables BCHC community paeds trainee, who won audit/ research competition. Excellent workshops and other presentations 👍

Lovely afternoon spent celebrating the achievements of many services within the Children and Families Division 👏👏👏 @bhamcommunity Claire Paintain Jo Peasland

Acorn's Children's Hospice reopens after major refurbishment | ITV News Central Such great news, especially as at one point it was thought they may end up closing - thank you to all the public donations that made this happen 😊 itv.com/news/central/2…

Lovely to celebrate #NHS75 at MHH today - thank you BCHC charity Stacey Taylor 💙🏳️‍🌈 @bhamcommunity

Lovely to be at Birmingham’s SEND Strategy launch this morning - which included an inspiring talk by Darren Harris, a blind double paralympian (football) and some great singing from pupils at Calthorpe and Selly Oak Special schools 😊

Thought provoking, inspiring and excellent talk on autism in girls at the ASM British Association of Community Child Health (Lucy Sanctuary - Highly Specialist SLT) this morning - ‘crucially, neurodiversity dictates that neurodivergent people are different not less’

Great to see the flag being flown for BCHC at the British Association of Child Health Annual Scientific Meeting - 1 oral presentation on the BCHC Transition model ‘Well being and Health At Transition’, 2 posters, 3 workshops run by BCHC Drs 👏👍lots of +ve feedback @bhamcommunity

25yrs+ to the NHS! a journey which has given me opportunities to work in other countries,meet kind and inspiring colleagues, to laugh with friends (and occasionally cry!) and support and treat many children and their families -Thank you NHS/BCHC Trust for the recognition today!😊

Great to be at the community paediatric simulation day yesterday observing an innovative way for teaching trainees developed by BCHC Dr Saiqa Akhtar,supported by colleagues and WM Deanery - using actors in scenario based consultation exercises - fantastic work by all involved 👏