I was so pleased to be able to get involved in the important discussions happening at the BCHC Community Connexions roundtable meeting yesterday, focused on health inequalities within the region 🤞 A room full of people passionate about making a positive impact in the community 🙌 JDRF UK

Screening children through elsadiabetes at the community clinic today at ACP Birmingham Thank you for your support everyone! @bhamcommunity NIHR CRN West Midlands Uni of Birmingham BCHC R&I

At the launch of #BirminghamFamilyVoices Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) Great work and initiative by @bhamcommunity Bham City Council Amy Maclean Christine Burt Suzanne Cleary 💙 Bham Children's Hosp 💙 BWC NHS Trust Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System

At the Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System Women’s Health event with a variety of service providers and leaders @bhamcommunity Bham Women's Hosp 💙 BCHC Women's Equality Network Salma Yaqoob Amy Maclean Suzanne Cleary 💙 NHS Midlands Bham City Council We are Primary Care NHS England Richard Kirby BWC NHS Trust Christine Burt

Some great discussions around improving research recruitment from communities and primary care. NIHR CRN West Midlands BCHC R&I NHS Midlands Integrated Neighbourhood Teams Birmingham CRN WM Study Support Service Care Quality Commission Limes Medical Centre Christine Burt

It was truly inspirational to be at Green Lane Masjid & Community Centre today for the cancer support event in collaboration with Macmillan Cancer Support This showcases the value of community/faith based approach to improve healthcare outcomes @bhamcommunity Uni of Birmingham University of Exeter Nishkam Centre

Today marks the completion of 8 community clinics for elsadiabetes in Birmingham with around 160 children recruited from diverse communities as a result of effective community engagement and building trust NIHR CRN West Midlands @bhamcommunity BCHC R&I Qadria Trust UK Uni of Birmingham

A huge achievement from BCHC Community Connexions! 8 community clinics delivered and as a result, over 100 children from underrepresented groups have taken part in the ELSA study! Thank you to Dr Fatima Zakia and NIHR CRN West Midlands for driving this important work! @diabetesuk JDRF UK Parth Narendran

Today we were at Simmer Down to provide free health checks to over 50 people in the Black/African & Carribean communities with the support of West Midlands Police @bhamcommunity Macmillan Cancer Support and GP from Modality Birmingham

Brilliant to see this happening, what a great example of true community engagement and partnership working. Great job BCHC Community Connexions and @bhamcommunity colleagues #Proud I hope we can work with local communities to do more of this, helping people access health screening and care

The latest from Supt Emlyn Richards following online rumours about protests in #Birmingham. ⬇️ If you have any information or videos that can help our investigation upload them to our online portal here: mipp.police.uk/operation/20HQ…

We have some important and exciting news to share... We have been shortlisted for the HSJ Awards for Primary and Community Care Innovation of the Year. Thank you to the shortlisting panel that considered our wheelchair weighing scales a contender. #HSJawards 🤩🙌🏽

As part of our community outreach, our team visited EWA CIC at their office in West Bromwich. Interesting conversations around partnership working and community engagement with the Polish & Romanian communities. Christine Burt @bhamcommunity Birmingham Community Matters (BCM) Bham City Council

Huge congratulations to the elsadiabetes team Birmingham Alumni and their fantastic partners BCHC Community Connexions for helping so many children find out if they have begun to develop #Type1Diabetes 👏