Birmingham Children’s Hospital is a fundraising hospital, meaning that charitable donations are key to making them what they are: a centre of paediatric excellence that the whole country depends on. Their aim for the 250,000 children that they treat each year is that their family knows that the care of their child is their most precious priority.

In addition to their general neurological and neurosurgical services, the department provides 24-hour emergency care and, as QEHB is a major trauma centre, the specialists work as part of a multidisciplinary team delivering urgent and complex care.

Muscular Dystrophy Support Centre (‘MDSC’ or ‘the Centre’) is an independent charity on a mission to transform access to therapies for people living with Muscular Dystrophy in the Midlands. Established in 2012, it provides long-term, regular, condition-specific therapies to anyone with muscular dystrophy or a related neuromuscular condition. The Centre responds to the needs of the 11,500 people in the Midlands region with neuromuscular conditions, but service users often come from a much wider geographical area.

Birmingham Heartlands Hospital hosts a neuromuscular service for children as well as a respiratory service for adults and children. The children’s service is made up of a multi-disciplinary team with both general and specific clinics for children across the West Midlands