Birmingham Health and Wellbeing Partnership (BHWP) - West Midlands SHA

Key focus/scope

The Birmingham Health and Wellbeing Partnership (BHWP) pilot consists of four sites in three primary care trusts and will focus on:

• people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and early intervention and prevention for mental health service users: NHS Birmingham East and North PCT (BENPCT)
• people with diabetes: NHS South Birmingham PCT (SBPCT)
• people with Multiple Sclerosis: NHS Heart of Birmingham teaching PCT (HOBtPCT)

BENPCT's COPD project and SBPCT's diabetes project have been selected to participate in the pilot's in-depth evaluation.

Overview of pilot and its purpose

The BHWP consists of three PCTs and the City Council. The pilot seeks to join up personalisation work going on in the city, improve partnership working between the host organisations and develop a joint solution for care planning and personalised budgets across Birmingham. The programme is working with the SHA, the Year of Care team and colleagues focusing on long term conditions in order to develop a shared care planning solution.

Objectives of pilot

The projects are focusing on long term conditions where very real benefits can be realised, both in terms of improved patient care as well as the creation of more productive and efficient ways of working.

The in-depth evaluated projects are targeting areas of Birmingham that experience relative deprivation, with the hope that improved engagement and a more personalised approach can deliver benefits and improved outcomes to harder to reach groups and communities.

This information has been provided by the Birmingham Health and Wellbeing Partnership.