Community Connexions is a patient and public engagement programme based within BCHC that seeks to foreground the lived experiences of local communities in Birmingham and Solihull regarding their health and access to healthcare services.
This helps to adapt services to better meet local needs, inform future health research and develop understanding for prevailing health inequalities across these regions.
The group’s aim is to actively listen, share understanding and collaborate with a broad spectrum of community and voluntary organisations from faith organisations, local charities groups, mutual aid groups and community forums to better understand the needs and priorities of local communities, health behaviours and barriers that lead to poor engagement with health services and/or research.
Community Connexions has a wide range of links with community, charity and faith organisations and can support researchers to link with those groups for research purposes.
Contact – BCHC.CommunityConnexions@nhs.net