Neighbourhood hubs go live citywide
The roll-out of neighbourhood hubs across Birmingham is due to be complete by the end of October 2025.
The expansion of the model to four localities across Birmingham, in addition to a hub in Solihull, builds on a successful pilot in the East Birmingham locality at Washwood Heath Health and Wellbeing Centre and forms part of a roll-out covering the Birmingham and Solihull integrated care system that is central to the work of the Birmingham and Solihull Community Care Collaborative.
The hubs are designed to be flexible to meet local need, featuring care co-ordination centres and services such as community respiratory and wound care clinics that health professionals can refer patients to as an accessible, high quality alternative to acute hospital attendance. Additional services will be integrated to meet local need.
GP-referral vaccination services to help local people avoid severe respiratory illness and unnecessary hospital admission during
the winter months was launched in advance of the new hubs becoming fully operational.
Locality hub care co-ordination centres will be home to triage nurses; early intervention community team co-ordinators; GPs; district nurses; clinical practitioners and administration support.
Professionals from emergency, acute partners University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust and Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust, primary and social care and the community and voluntary sector are working alongside Birmingham Community Healthcare colleagues as part of the hubs roll-out - a flexible, multi-agency work designed to promote patient flow and hospital admission avoidance.
The initiative is part of the government's health strategy to provide better integrated, localised health and social care services with the core aim of shifting care from hospitals to the community, preventing ill-health, and improving patient access to multidisciplinary care and support services such as housing and debt advice.
The 'one-stop shops' are central to creating the 'neighbourhood health service' set out in the 10 Year Health Plan by offering community-based care as a high quality alternative to acute and emergency provision.
The east locality pilot locality hub, launched last winter, has attracted significant national attention for its innovative approach to partnership provision of community-based healthcare.
Locality/neighbourhood hub locations
East Birmingham - Washwood Heath Health and Wellbeing Centre
North Birmingham - Stockland Green Primary Care Centre
South Birmingham - West Heath Hospital
West Birmingham - Summerfield Primary Care Centre
Solihull - Solihull Hospital