We are committed to supporting healthcare teams to deliver high-quality, consistent care for patients across Birmingham and Solihull.
The Clinical Pathways Resource Hub is your single, trusted source of up-to-date local clinical guidance. It is designed to help ensure patients receive the right care, at the right time, in the right place – first time.
Your go-to resource for local clinical guidance
Our pathways are developed collaboratively by clinicians across primary and secondary care. They reflect shared expertise from those who refer, request investigations, and provide specialist advice and patient reviews.
This approach ensures:
- Clear, consistent expectations across the primary–secondary interface
- Improved quality and completeness of referrals
- Reduced avoidable Advice and Guidance queries
- Greater confidence in managing patients in primary care where appropriate
Using the Hub supports confident clinical decision-making - helping you determine when referral is required and, in many cases, enabling safe and effective management at the point of care.
Important notice
All online documents within the Hub are the only maintained versions. Printed or offline copies should be treated as uncontrolled documents and may not contain the latest updates, amendments, or active hyperlinks.
Following recent system-wide webinars, we are strengthening how the Hub supports everyday clinical practice.
The webinars introduced:
- The SMART (Specialist Medical Advice Request Template) for Advice and Guidance and referrals.
- The Clinical Pathways Resource Hub as the single access point for local specialty guidance (via the owl desktop icon).
- Updates to the ICE pathology interface, supporting appropriate requesting and right test first time.
- The revised vitamin D testing policy, including prescribing clarification and patient materials.
- Increased awareness of community diagnostic centres (CDCs).
Find GP webinar resources, and the Vitamin D policy update.
This is not a static repository. It is a continuously evolving clinical tool.
We actively welcome:
- Feedback on existing pathways.
- Suggestions for improvements.
- Requests for new pathway development.
We believe in the power of collaboration to improve patient care. If you have suggestions for helpful resources or pathways that could be included in our hub, please share them with us for consideration. Together, we can build a more integrated and responsive healthcare system for Birmingham and Solihull, and support your help your day-to-day practice.
Any feedback you have on the clinical pathways resource hub would be greatly appreciated. Please send your feedback, as well as clinical pathway queries, to nhsbsolicb.clinicalpathways@nhs.net.
Please note that nhsbsolicb.clinicalpathways@nhs.net is not for personal appointment queries. If you have questions or concerns regarding your personal appointment, please contact the healthcare provider you have been referred to or return to your original referrer for assistance