22 May 2025
New mental health report calls for better access and early help for children and young people
A report based on feedback from young people, parents and carers and health and care organisations in Birmingham and Solihull…
Read moreThe Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism Provider Collaborative is a commissioning organisation, which means we are responsible for buying mental health, learning disability and autism services for people in Birmingham and Solihull.
Provider collaboratives are partnerships that bring healthcare organisations together to benefit their populations.
Our partnership formally bringing together the NHS and the Birmingham and Solihull VCFSE Collective to make decisions about the design and delivery of local services. This partnership approach ensures that decisions about care are rooted in the community – made not just by the NHS but by voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations that are experienced in working with and in local communities.
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is the lead provider of services for our collaborative. We also work with providers within the VCFSE and with wider partners including both local authorities in Birmingham and Solihull, who provide social care and education services across the system.
We want to improve the care and experience of mental health, learning disability and autism services, so we also work closely with people who currently use the services or have previous experience of care (experts by experience) to help us make decisions about how care should be delivered in future.
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Our vision, aims and priorities
Our vision
Supporting mental health and wellbeing at every stage of life
Our aims
- Have a clear and easy to access mental health offer
- Improve the care and support we are providing in localities, within communities and close to where people live, tailored to local need
- Reduce dependency on hospital-based services
- Tackle the health inequalities, aiming for equity in access, experience and outcomes, and improving population health
Our priorities
Working together with people across the health and care system, we are setting ourselves five priority areas to focus on over the next five years:
- Improving mental health services for children and young people.
- Improving inpatient care
- Community mental health services
- Learning disabilities and autism
- Specialist placement pathways
Newsletter
Welcome to the first issue of BSol Bulletin, the new newsletter for colleagues working in and with the Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism Provider Collaborative.
In this issue, read more about the new text service we’ve commissioned, meet the quality team and learn more about what we’re doing to put Birmingham Families First. All this plus upcoming training and event opportunities.
Team Talk: Meet the Quality Team
In this new feature, we put teams within the collaborative in the spotlight.
A small team with a big responsibility, the quality team ensures the quality and safety of all commissioned services for mental health, learning disabilities and autism across Birmingham and Solihull.
The leadership team of three is made up of Sarah Bloomfield, director of quality and safety; Emma Watts, head of quality; and the most recent recruit, Emma Pickering, deputy head of quality and they are supported by a wider team/number of other teams within the collaborative to deliver the quality agenda.
