Core Cities

NHS Birmingham East and North is proud to take part in the Core Cities Health Improvement Collaborative along with local authorities and nine other primary care trusts covering England’s eight major cities outside of London. Birmingham is one of these, alongside Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield.

The collaborative has identified a small number of common priority health improvement areas, which include:

• Teenage pregnancy
• Alcohol harm reduction
• Life expectancy (including cardiovascular disease and infant mortality)
• Obesity
• Tobacco control (enforcement, smoke free homes etc)

As a group, we share a lot of the same agenda, and we feel that by coming together, we can share learning and seek to work together on our most challenging problems. Health inequalities is a core theme running through these priorities, which reflect the eight Local Area Agreements and World Class Commissioning health outcomes adopted by each city.