About Birmingham Children’s Hospital
At Birmingham Children’s Hospital we are one of only four specialist independent children’s hospitals in the UK and we provide the second highest number of nationally commissioned children’s services in England.  We also treat approximately 6% of all children diagnosed with a rare disease in the country.
Our vision is to build on the excellent care we provide to our rare diseases patients, using our expert clinical knowledge and our skilled research teams to become a national rare diseases centre.
At Birmingham Children’s Hospital we treat over 9,000 patients a year with over 500 different rare diseases. We’re proud to provide these patients with a multi-professional patient-focused approach; this means our teams work closely together to meet the needs of our patients and their families.
Our health professionals and researchers are also committed to improving the quality of life for our patients through research to find new treatments and hopefully cures. On our website you will be able to see which clinical trials we are currently running and find information about some of our rare disease specialists’ previous academic work.