Commissioning

North Manchester Clinical Commissioning Group (NMCCG) and Public Health, Manchester City Council are holding a meeting to discuss their future tender for Community Links for Health in North Manchester on Monday 16th January, from  9.30-12.30 at Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, M2 5NS. Communities Links for Health will connect people who access health and care services with a range of social and community sources of support to enable them to improve their health.

The third meeting of the co-design group was held on Tuesday 1st November. It began with presentations focusing on examples of approaches to procurement including; setting up a separate organisation to do it - Manchester Youth Trust; crowd funding; and models from Camden and Bristol. The group then discussed the examples and began to develop a range of models.

We streamed our Spirit of Manchester Awards live, on Thursday 6 October.

You can watch our awards ceremony below.

Watch our Chief Executive, Mike Wild talk about our upcoming Spirit of Manchester Awards on That's Manchester TV

Our State of the Sector Survey in 2013 found that there were 3,093 voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations in Manchester, with an estimated income of £477 million. The sector employed the equivalent of 12,400 full time staff and 94,300 volunteers gave 370,000 hours, with an estimated value of £332 million. Decision makers took note of the survey results, we know it increased their understanding of the sector. Some of the key facts (3093 organisations, 94,300 volunteers) are now widely quoted by colleagues in the Council, the NHS and other bodies such as Big Lottery Fund.

This briefing is the first in a series of Macc briefings that will cover the predicted central government funding cuts on Manchester City Council in the year 2016/17 and how these cuts may impact on Manchester's Voluntary and Community Sector. It can be downloaded here.

The second newsletter of the Living Longer, Living Better programme is now available. Living Longer, Living Better is the Health and Social Care integration strategy for Manchester. The key project is the development of One Team - 12 patch-based integrated health and social care teams. The project is supported by a practitioner design team and the newsletter gives updates on each of the project work-streams.