A year of progress: BHP launches latest annual review
From major Government investments to advances in clinical trials and health data, 2025/6 has been a year of collaborative achievements across Birmingham Health Partners – celebrated today in the launch of our annual review.
Bringing together universities, acute and specialist NHS Trusts and health innovation organisations, BHP continues to demonstrate how working across institutional boundaries can accelerate research, improve patient care and tackle some of the region’s most urgent health challenges.
Among the achievements included in the review are:
- £21 million secured for the West Midlands Clinical Commercial Catalyst, a major programme designed to accelerate innovation, attract private investment and bring new treatments and technologies to patients faster
- Faster access to clinical research, with 81% of studies supported by the Central and North West Midlands NIHR Commercial Research Delivery Centre opening within the national 60-day benchmark
- Major advances in health data, with the West Midlands Secure Data Environment bringing together extensive NHS datasets including 10 billion rows of inpatient data
- Progress in transforming type 1 diabetes care, with the ELSA study screening more than 17,000 children for early signs of the condition