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The Hobby Journal - Your personal guide to social activities in Manchester for the over 50s

Did you know that commissioners of health services in Manchester have been working with voluntary and community groups on projects for older people in the city?

The aim is to help people in their 50s and over to stay involved in hobbies and social groups so they don’t feel isolated, which can have a big impact on physical and mental health.

The groups offer a wide range of recreational ideas and are also a way of making friends and easing loneliness.

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Manchester Advocacy Hub Website goes live

The Manchester Advocacy Hub Website is now live and is a comprehensive tool for professionals, users and their families to find out about advocacy in Manchester. The information on the website includes; what advocacy is and what statutory rights a person has to advocacy under the Mental Capacity Act, the Mental Health Act and the Care Act.

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End of Life Care Strategy: Focus Groups

Pennine Acute Hospital Trust is currently developing an End of Life Care Strategy. The Trust is interested in feedback from families and carers who have experience of services provided by the Trust in relation to End of Life Care.

The Trust will be holding two focus groups in October to gather service experiences and would encourage people to attend to share their feedback so that they can provide excellent care and meet the needs of patients, families and carers.

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University Hospital South Manchester events to launch the new community services specifications

UHSM (University Hospital South Manchester) have put together a programme of events to launch the new community services specifications during September/October and would like to invite local voluntary and community organisations to be involved.

There will be a range of activities across a four week period with each week concentrating on a specific theme.

Frailty: 29 September
Mental Health: 5 October
Living Well in Manchester: 12 October
General Out of Hospital Community Services: 19 October

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NHS England - Community Grants

Has your community or voluntary group been working to involve patients and the public in improving health care services?
Have you got some good practice to share?

NHS England is seeking to make grant awards to showcase good practice around patient and citizen participation in healthcare. NHS England know that there is really excellent patient and public involvement work happening all around the country and want to do more to share and learn from what is happening locally.

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Later Life Mental Health Services Consultation

Manchester Mental and Social Care Trust are planning to redesign their later life mental health services.

In summary, Manchester Mental and Social Care Trust want to provide mental health services that are fit for purpose, underpinned by evidence based practice and which take account of service users’ and carers’ views as well as making best use of the available resources.

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Myths about the voluntary sector - Parts 5 and 6

A few weeks back I met with a group of voluntary & community sector leaders working with children young people and families and our local Director of Children's Services. We were talking about how to build the relationship between the sectors so we hit on the idea of writing a blog to challenge a few myths and misconceptions which tend to distort the relationship.

Myths about the voluntary sector - Parts 3 and 4

A few weeks back I met with a group of voluntary & community sector leaders working with children young people and families and our local Director of Children's Services. We were talking about how to build the relationship between the sectors so we hit on the idea of writing a blog to challenge a few myths and misconceptions which tend to distort the relationship.

Myths about the voluntary sector - Parts 1 and 2

A few weeks back I met with a group of voluntary & community sector leaders working with children young people and families and our local Director of Children's Services. We were talking about how to build the relationship between the sectors so we hit on the idea of writing a blog to challenge a few myths and misconceptions which tend to distort the relationship.

Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Devolution ebulletin

Devolution in Greater Manchester will allow us to have a bigger impact, more quickly, on the health, wealth and wellbeing of the 2.8m people who live in our city region. Health and care services will be far freer to respond to what local people want; using their experience and expertise to help change the way we spend the money. The Greater Manchester Combined Authority produces an ebulletin to keep you up to date with all things Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Devolution.

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