The Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Autism Provider Collaborative

The 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 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.