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Central Manchester CCG Fertility survey

Have you used infertility services in Manchester?

Central Manchester Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) want to hear about your experience. NHS Central Manchester CCG is committed to ensuring that the patient voice is heard and used to shape and improve services.

Central Manchester CCG want to know more about your experiences of the NHS Infertility Services from when you first consulted your GP, right up to being treated at a Specialist Infertility Centre.

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Tackling Poverty Grants

Provides money to third sector groups to provide for their clients for their immediate food needs or other essential items. Support should be in the form of food or goods rather than cash. Can be both for existing and new schemes. No project or admin costs.

Total budget (£):

250,000

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Bid for funding to tackle food poverty

Manchester City Council is inviting voluntary and other third sector groups to bid for a share of a new £250,000 fund which will combat food poverty in the city.

Manchester City Council has made the additional funding available under its Local Welfare Scheme to help the most vulnerable residents in crisis situations, for example the homeless or those fleeing violence or domestic abuse.

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A Systematic Review of Research on Community Engagement to Reduce Inequalities in Health

Collecting evidence about whether community engagement works is difficult, far more difficult than measuring the effectiveness of a new medicine. A new report looks at 361 studies and concludes overall that community engagement works.

The review considered the following questions:

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Manchester Joint Strategic Needs Assessment

The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) analyses the health needs of populations to inform and guide commissioning of health, well-being and social care services within local authority areas. The main goal of the Manchester JSNA is to accurately assess the health needs of the population in order to improve the physical and mental health and well-being of individuals and communities.

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Health and Wellbeing

Policy and Influence

Age-friendly Manchester Small Grants

The Age-friendly Manchester Small Grants fund, run in partnership with Trinity House Community Resource Centre, provides grants of up to £300 to community groups working with or for older people in the City of Manchester. Most awards are short-term events or projects but funding also given to groups for subsistence support.

Total budget (£):

8,000

Maximum award/grant (£):

300

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Commissioning

Health and Wellbeing

Older People

Manchester City Council publish Market Position Statement on Adult Social Care

Manchester City Council have published their first Market Position Statement concerning Adult Social Care.

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People/communities experiencing racial inequalities

North West Ambulance Service - Patient Experience

The North West Ambulance Service is continually looking for ways in which they can improve the experience of the patients they serve throughout the North West.

Following the success of the original award winning board game, the Patient Experience team have developed a new second board game based around the theme of ‘There is more to your ambulance service than you think’ and has been designed after receiving feedback from community groups.

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Involvement in Local Health Structures

NAVCA is conducting a survey of the sector's involvement in health structures and in determining local health and social care priorities.

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Community Engagement

Health and Wellbeing

Healthwatch Manchester quick survey on personal health budgets

Healthwatch Manchester is aware that there is a limited amount of information available to people around Personal Health Budgets.

This survey seeks not only to provide them with more detailed information about this issue but also to provide you with some basic facts about Personal Health Budgets.

To complete the survey, visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VS3KWYC

This survey will close on 30 November 2013.

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Health and Wellbeing