A recently-hosted symposium aimed to explore faith-inspired teachings for start of life care and neighbourhood integration, and to discuss findings from the Birmingham and Solihull (BSoL) ICB-funded Nishkam Start of Life Care project, which launched in July 2023, and has run four successful cohorts.

We invite you to get a free advanced health check at the Nishkam Healthcare Centre throughout Monday to Friday from 8am-3pm for all aged 18 to 85. These health checks include blood pressure, height and weight and blood tests.

A full range of free health checks - from blood pressure and blood glucose checks, eye and dental advice, dietary guidance and height and weight checks - will be offered to thousands of visitors on 7 May 2023 to mark Handsworth Community Cohesion Day

The leadership of the Nishkam Group had a vision, a dream, a passion to make health more equitable in a deprived inner-city area of Birmingham. So, 10 years ago the Nishkam Healthcare Trust (NHT), based on Soho Road, Birmingham was launched. The NHT’s proposition is unique – it was not vying to compete with the NHS, but to compassionately complement it and enable services to be more accessible to so many disenfranchised residents who feel out of touch.

In line with its values, to mark the momentous occasion of being a decade old, celebrations will be held on Wednesday 18th January for all, which will include free health checks and the opportunity to speak to dentists, GPs and pharmacists and integrative counsellors about healthy living, and an array of refreshments.

COVID-19 has had a significant effect on the wellbeing and the psychological health of children. The pandemic has led to behavioural, attention and emotional difficulties in children due to difficulties in accessing support. The national lockdown had a profound effect on children, particularly those with a history of mental health.

Children were faced with challenges, in terms of dealing with pressures of school/college, loneliness, isolation and a loss of their routine making lockdown harder to cope. Without school, children could not see their friends and teachers so could not socialise, and with no spaces to explore and grow their skills and no routine, this had a predictably negative impact.  

We are delighted to announce that the weekly Walk with a Doctor session, taking place every Saturday morning at 10.30am, has resumed.

Launched in 2019, this activity proved very popular with the local community, giving attendees a chance to speak with a GP about living a healthy life, how to identify warning signs and symptoms of serious health conditions, as well as how to manage common conditions such as Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension & Ischaemic heart disease.

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus is an increasingly common condition which causes the levels of glucose (sugar) to be too high in the blood. It is becoming increasingly common in the population and can often go undetected for years causing unseen damage inside the body. For many people it can largely be prevented by simple lifestyle measures.

An audience of over 90 people were moved to tears during a panel discussion around living kidney donation during the recently hosted Health Awareness Day, which took place on 16th April 2022.

Among the pharmacy, dental and mental and emotional wellbeing stands, which welcomed over a hundred people to better understand how to maintain their health and prevent future illnesses, was a special hour-long panel discussion, hosted by Dr Manvir Kaur Hayer, Chair of the Nishkam Healthcare Trust and Kidney Specialist Consultant, focussing on the Living Kidney Donation campaign. A mixture of kidney specialists and kidney donors were in attendance, such as Surinder Jandu (Renal Transplant Coordinator, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham) as well a group of people with lived experience of kidney donation.

The Nishkam Healthcare Centre is delighted to announce that we will be hosting a Health Awareness Day on Saturday 16th March 2022 from 10am to 2pm for the local community. A wide range of health professionals will be present at the event, including dentists, GPs, emotional wellbeing practitioners and nutritionists.

Nishkam Healthcare Trust supports Living Kidney Donation on World Kidney Day

The Nishkam COVID-19 Vaccination Centre opened on 13th March 2021, in response to the Government’s urgent call for assistance. In just 10 days, through the faith inspired visionary leadership of Bhai Sahib Mohinder Singh Ahluwalia, Patron of the Nishkam Healthcare Trust, and the Trust’s Senior Leadership Team, alongside the hard work of selfless volunteers, a Nishkam warehouse in Newtown was transformed into a fully functioning clean, safe, and welcoming vaccination centre.