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Staff wellbeing in the voluntary and public sectors - take the Guardian’s survey

3 Jul 2015 - 10:27 by michelle.foster

Employee absence from work is persistently higher in the public and voluntary sectors than in other sectors, with stress increasingly blamed as the main problem.

Research shows that – on average – the annual absence from work in the public sector was 9.6 days, 8.3 days in the not-for-profit sector and 6.6 days in the private sector. This is costly for the sectors – with the median annual cost of public-sector absence being £899 per employee, which is nearly £300 more than other sector.

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Health and Wellbeing

UCLAN Research Project - Innovation in care pathway for people with long term conditions

25 Jun 2015 - 14:37 by michelle.foster

The University of Central Lancashire and Zest Healthy Living Service are looking for people who are resident in Harpurhey and who are either living with or caring for someone with one or more long terms conditions to take part in the study.

About a quarter of people in Harpurhey are thought to be living with a long-term health condition. Long-term health conditions cannot be cured, but they can often be managed or controlled by some form of medical treatment or by some other form of intervention.

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People in Manchester urged to open their hearts and homes to vulnerable adults

17 Jun 2015 - 14:26 by michelle.foster

People in Manchester are being encouraged to consider opening their home to a vulnerable adult as an innovative new service is launched in the city.

Award-winning social enterprise PSS and Manchester City Council have teamed up to unveil Shared Lives (or Adult Placement) - where vulnerable adults and young people over 16 live at home with a specially recruited and trained carer and their family.

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Spirit of Manchester Awards 2015 – get your nominations in by 3 July

16 Jun 2015 - 16:03 by michelle.foster

The Spirit of Manchester Awards is a series of awards celebrating and highlighting all the excellent work being carried out in Manchester’s voluntary and community sector. As well as providing recognition to the sector in these hard times, we want to raise the profile of the sector amongst the general public and encourage local giving and active citizenship.

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Arts & culture
People/communities experiencing racial inequalities
Business citizenship
Capacity Building
Children and Families
Commissioning
Community Engagement
Community First
Crime and Disorder
Environment
Equalities
Faith
Festival event
Funding
Health and Wellbeing
Homelessness
Learning, Skills and Employment
LGBTQIA+
Mental Health
Older People
Physical Disability
Policy and Influence
Social enterprise
Transgender
Volunteering
Young People
Other

One Team - Manchester's Approach to Health and Social Care Integration

1 Jun 2015 - 14:28 by Nigel Rose

The final version of the specification for One Team has been published. One Team is Manchester's approach to bringing health and social care staff together to deliver an integrated service in 12 patches across the city. Section 1 outlines the challenges that Manchester faces in terms of health and wellbeing and the key strategies in place to meet those challenges. Section 2 describes the specification and the design parameters.

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Commissioning
Health and Wellbeing

Greater Manchester West - Recovery Academy training

21 May 2015 - 13:43 by cheryl.mcalister

Who can attend?
The Recovery Academy offers courses to:

Anyone who is experiencing mental health or substance misuse problems, their supporters (family, friends and loved ones), GMW staff, volunteers and students on placement, Health Care Professionals

All our courses are free, but you need to register and sign our Student Charter before attending.

For more information visit www.gmw.nhs.uk/recovery
 

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Mental Health

Local organisations support new dementia friendly Hulme information programme

11 May 2015 - 10:11 by michelle.foster

Dementia Friendly Hulme is working in partnership with experts from local Manchester companies and services to run their first SHARED programme for people living with dementia and their partners/family carers.

This free programme runs for 6 consecutive weeks every Wednesday from 20 May starting at 10am and finishing at 2.30pm at the Amani Centre, Moss Lane East, Moss Side, Manchester M16 7DG (on the Hulme / Moss Side border) and includes lunch.

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New creative group for sufferers of memory loss

24 Apr 2015 - 10:02 by michelle.foster

Do you have memory loss, or support someone else that does?

Storybox - Creative Café is a brand new group based at Manchester’s Central Library, offering free, fun, creative activities designed especially for people with memory loss, and their family and friends.

The group meets every other Tuesday from 11am-12pm. The next dates are:
28 April
12 May and 26 May
9 June and 23 June
7 July and 21 July

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VSNW Social Prescribing Survey

24 Apr 2015 - 09:59 by michelle.foster

Social prescribing has become a key agenda. VSNW think that social prescribing could provide an important way to drive change, for the benefit of local people, that focusses on the strengths of our sector.

In order to help VSNW make the case for the sector’s role, they would like to find out what’s happening, what’s already being commissioned and who would like to be involved in this agenda as it develops. In order to do this, they have set up a short survey.

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GP Films In 5 Languages – Which NHS Service to use when you’re unwell

24 Apr 2015 - 09:59 by michelle.foster

Manchester is one of the most linguistically diverse cities in Europe, and is home to over 150 different languages. Working closely with multilingual GPs, a new approach has been developed by the Manchester Clinical Commissioning Groups to help reach these audiences. Local GPs have supported the production of videos, which are in Arabic, Bengali, English, Punjabi and Urdu. The GPs explain what to do when you’re feeling unwell and which NHS services to use.

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