As part of British Science Week, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham (QEHB) will be holding a special event that will be open to school children and the public.

Scientific Diversity at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) - a journey through the specialties will be held on Thursday 17 March 2016 with the early part of the day seeing pupils from four local schools touring over 15 exciting stalls, completing a QEHB Healthcare Sciences Passport on the way.

The journey for pupils will begin surrounded by all the equipment that can be found in a critical care bed, while phlebotomists show them how to take a blood sample.

Pupils will then find out what happens to a blood sample, find out what it can tell us, and will be shown how to extract DNA by specialist healthcare scientists.

Travellers will also be able to see maxillofacial experts and how they can rebuild you, alongside many exhibits from the huge range of physiology teams at QEHB, from gastro-intestinal and neurology to cardiology and audiology.

Students can even win a personal hand mould to hang on their walls if they enter their completed passport into the day’s prize draw.

Each exciting and interactive demonstrations will also be open to the public between 12:00 and 15:00 with everybody also able to complete a Healthcare Sciences Passport along the way.

If you would like to take the tour of what happens behind the scenes at QEHB, or learn more about research and development at the Trust, including the West Midlands Genomics Medicine Centre – part of the 10,000 Genomes project, please visit on Thursday 17 March 2016 between 12:00 and 15:00.