Projects and Partnerships
Walk with a Doctor
Join a doctor for a walk around Handsworth on Saturday mornings at 9.30am! Walk with a Doctor has been running since 2019, and has proved to be very popular with the local community, giving attendees a chance to speak with a GP about living a healthy life, identifying warning signs and symptoms of serious health conditions, as well as managing common conditions such as Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension & Ischaemic heart disease.
Open to all, this is a great opportunity to get out and about, and find out more about how to live your best healthy life.
Start of Life Care
Funded by the Birmingham and Solihull ICB, the Nishkam Start of Life Maternity Hub is a community-led, person-centred programme aiming to improve health and well-being outcomes for children and families.
This programme will consist of 12 expert-led fully-funded workshops - taking place in a safe, culturally appropriate setting - with the purpose of supporting women through pregnancy. The focus of the workshops on self-care, emotional wellbeing, peer support, and preparation for pregnancy, birth and afterwards.
Patient & Carers Race Equality Framework
We are in partnership with other community organisations working to improve mental health for racialised communities to foster new referral pathways in order to improve ethnic minority community experiences of mental health care. We are grateful to have received funding for this in 2023, in partnership with: The 1928 Institute, Acacia Family Support, Catalyst 4 Change, Derbyshire Gypsy Liaison Group and Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Find out more about the Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework on the NHS England website.
Living Kidney Donation campaign
In January 2022, the Nishkam Healthcare Trust were awarded funding from NHS Blood and Transplant to drive much needed awareness of living kidney donation specifically among the South Asian community in Handsworth, Birmingham. The NHS-run Living Kidney Donation scheme, which is an extension of the Community Investment Scheme, was launched because of the significantly longer times Black, Asian and minority ethnic patients have to wait for a successful match due to a shortage of suitably matched donors.
Start of Life Care
Funded by Birmingham and Solihull Integrated Care System (ICS), the Start of Life Care project aims to establish a community-led, person-centred Maternity and Early Years hub to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for children and families during the first 1001 days. This will be done through delivery of holistic values-led services and seamless vertical integration in healthcare at a neighbourhood level.
Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme
Nishkam Healthcare Trust are currently working with Modality & Peoples Health Partnership on an innovative project to reduce cardiovascular risk as well to address the social determinants of health. A Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Service offering BP checks and blood glucose testing takes place at Nishkam Pharmacy on a daily basis. This includes weekly group consultations run by GPs volunteering to serve the local population.