Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust (BSMHFT) is proud to provide inpatient, community and specialist mental health care for over 71,000 people across Birmingham and Solihull and the West Midlands.

Its services include rehabilitation, addiction, secure care, home treatment, assertive outreach, early intervention, place of safety and wellbeing. The Trust also manages the delivery of mental health care in HMP Birmingham.

With 5,300 staff working across 40 sites – and serving a culturally and socially diverse population of 1.3 million people – it is one of the biggest and most complex mental health trusts in the country.

Spotlight

Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS)

CRIS enables safe and secure retrieval of de-identified data from the Trust’s Electronic Medical Record System (Rio), which can then be used for research, clinical audits and service evaluations for the benefits of our services and service users. In use by 12 UK mental health trusts, data can be shared to accelerate research work in dementia and mental health on a larger scale. Learn more about CRIS and how it is used.