About us

The Midlands Health Academy (MHA) is a partnership which met initially in June 2006 to discuss the potential for working together. It was agreed that working together to promote the training and employment opportunities within all the institutions involved would be beneficial to the Health Service workforce. The partners who currently form the MHA are: Birmingham City University, Matthew Boulton and Sutton Coldfield Colleges, Aston University and Heart of Birmingham Teaching Primary Care Trust.

We are working on establishing a closer relationship with our local communities that will manifest in more people entering into and through higher education and employment in the NHS, or returning to work through acquisition of new knowledge or skills, or seeking new employment opportunities as a result of newly acquired knowledge and skills, particularly at higher education levels.

We wish to both raise awareness of education, training and employment opportunities that are available within the Midlands Health Academy and to set up an accord or progression agreements so that individuals can progress into education at the appropriate level and go onto develop skills and training that will enhance their employment prospects. The opportunities that we seek to provide will enable individuals to enter into the education system at the appropriate level and then move between or within the educational institutions as well as employment.