Health and Wellbeing

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

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.

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.

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.

The purpose of this engagement is to seek a wide range of views on the refreshed NHS North, Central and South Manchester Clinical Commissioning Groups Equality, Diversity and Human Rights Strategy 2015 – 2018.

The strategy sets out how Manchester CCGs plan to eliminate discrimination, reduce inequalities and improve health outcomes for all that live and work in the city of Manchester and ensuring that we comply with our legal obligations as defined in the Equality Act 2010.

Care and support in England is changing. The new Care Act 2014, is making care and support more consistent across England.

People could benefit from the changes if they:
• receive care and support
• support someone as a carer
• are planning for future care and support

What is changing?
Since April 2015, the Care Act Legislation has introduced:
• A new national level of care and support needs to make care and support more consistent across the country
• New support for carers
• Deferred payment agreements for care costs

The Expert Patients Programme supports people with long-term conditions to regain as much control over their physical and emotional well-being as possible.

Patients have said they often need to develop different ways to cope with regular discomfort and not being able to do the things they used to do or would like to do.

The course is delivered in a group session once a week for 6 weeks, each session lasts for 2 ½ hours with a refreshment break.

It is an evidence based self-management programme and delivered at local venues across Manchester.