Projects and Activities

 

A Community Roundtable was organised by CC, attended by over 100 people from various organisations, in January 2024 to:

1. Celebrate our progress so far and showcase some of our outcomes.
2. Network with community groups and partners
3. Work with the community leaders and professionals to identify the top healthcare priorities and gather your ideas for co-created solutions that we can work on together.

 

Keynote Talks

Dr Fatima Zakia

Dr Christine Burt

Dr Ceiline Benoit

 

Interviews

Joy Krishnamoorthy, Lead on Flourish

Marion Gibbon, Interim Assistant Director of Public Health, Birmingham City Council, Public Health Division

Mohammed Shaikh, Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Cross Cutting Theme Lead

Suzanne Cleary, Chief Officer, Strategy and Partnerships, BCHC

Tony Kelly, Diabetes Ambassador / Activist

Amy Maclean, Development Lead, Maternity and Children, for the Ladywood and Perry Barr Locality Partnership

• Community Clinic at Aspire & Succeed (Lozells): 31 children screened for diabetes type 1 from the South Asian background.
• Community clinic at ILEYS (Smethwick): 25 Somali children screened for diabetes type 1. One child came out to be positive with no diabetes family history. Mother was grateful for the study participation as the child was hospitalised a few days later as his symptoms got worse.
• Community Clinic at Nishkam Centre (Handsworth): 28 children screened for diabetes type 1 from mixed communities with additional BMI checks provided by NHS nurses.
• Community clinic at Refugee Alliance (Northfield): 6 children were screened for diabetes type 1 from the Syrian refugee families.

 

 

This was an interactive session with a group of families from various social & ethnic backgrounds to learn about some of the barriers regarding research involvement and recruitment. This was done in collaboration with the University of Birmingham to add some valuable feedback to the ELSA study which is screening children for diabetes type 1.

• Focus group at Refugee Alliance: Syrian refugee families
• Focus group at Oscar Birmingham: Black / Caribbean / African families
• Focus group at William Wilson Turner Foundation: Black / African / Nigerian families
• Focus group at New Heights Community: White British families with children of special needs
• Focus group at Aspire & Succeed: South Asian families

 

• Listening event at Refugee Alliance: there were 4 listening events organised by RA at various venues with Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Romanian, Pushto, Syrian and Black Caribbean African
• Listening event at Saathi House: this is an only women centre, predominantly South Asian
• Listening event at ILEYS Community: a group of Somali families attended this CC listening event.
• Listening ‘on the go’ Handsworth Library: this was done by holding a stand at Handsworth library and engaging with the public and visitors randomly. A good mix of people gave their feedback on RedCap which was on our Ipads. This was a Christmas celebration hence there was good footfall on the day.