Easy to Reach Services
To make it easy to find the information you want to know, Health Exchange services are available at local venues close to you, and at city centre locations too.
You can gain access to drop-in services, which provide a wide range of health information as well as personalised guidance from our Health Supporters. You can also access our website, through easy-to-use information kiosks.
Our primary location, at Birmingham Central Library, is also home to our partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support, and a number of cancer-related services and other support groups operate from there.
Health Exchange at Birmingham Central Library:
5th Floor, Central Library, Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, B3 3HQ.
Opening Times:
The Hub is available during library opening hours:
Monday to Friday: 09.00 – 20.00
Saturdays: 09.00 – 17.00
Sundays: Closed
Contact Us:
by FREEPHONE: 0800 158 3535
by e-mail: info@healthexchange.org.uk
Health Exchange Briefing Room
The Hub contains a fully-equipped, multi-function briefing room which is available for use for appropriate health-promotion briefings and seminars.
The room is 5m wide x10m long, closed on three sides with the open side overlooking the study area below
The room accommodates up to 35 people in theatre-layout or 12 people in boardroom-layout. Our staff will be happy to help advise you on other possible layouts for the room.
Room Bookings:
The briefing room may be booked during opening hours by Health Exchange partners (and other organisations by agreement) for briefings, presentations and meetings which offer a clear public health outcome in line with Health Exchange’s aims and objectives. This may include public awareness events, advice, guidance, health promotion, and training events. Health Exchange staff will be happy to help answer any questions you may have about bookings, appropriate events, access timings, and so forth. Please contact us as shown above.
Equipment
The room is equipped with a 60-inch interactive whiteboard, a ceiling-mounted LCD video projector, and a desktop computer running Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office, including internet access. The computer has 19” TFT screen with Supernova software (text reading/visual enhancement for users with visual impairments) and the PC and projector are interoperable with the interactive whiteboard.
Presentations can be accessed through the internet or brought along on CD, DVD or USB memory stick. We will also permit presenters to install specific applications on the PC, by agreement, for specific events, and users may also connect their own PC’s / presentation equipment to the projector.
Refreshments
Light refreshments for meetings can be ordered through the library’s preferred caterers. A minimum of 24-hours notice is required for all orders. To discuss your requirements further, please call the catering orderline on 0121 449 6549.
