Health and Wellbeing

Together Dementia Support is a relatively new, not-for-profit Community Interest Company whose objective is to support local people who are living with dementia, enabling them to lead active lives, giving and receiving support with others.

Together Dementia Support is successfully running several Friendship and Activity Groups in central/south Manchester and have plans to grow and develop this work.

Together Dementia Support wish to strengthen their board of directors and are seeking directors with experience in either HR, financial management, or bid writing.

Patients across Heywood, Middleton, Rochdale, Oldham and Bury are being asked their views on diabetic eye screening.

The North East Diabetic Eye Screening Programme (NEDESP) is carrying out a review of screening sites and wants the views of diabetic patients on where they can go to be screened.

The Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMW) dragons have identified another £150k non-recurrent funding for 2015/16 to support innovative proposals and ideas that will contribute to them achieving their Trust Quality Account priorities.

What do I need to do?
Just produce a short brief (no longer than a side of A4) outlining who you are, what you propose to do, which Quality Account priorities your bid covers and how much funding you need. No bid is too small but your bid should not exceed £10k.

What is Hepatitis C?
Hepatitis C is a virus that can infect and damage the liver. In most cases it causes no noticeable symptoms until the liver has been damaged. The hepatitis C virus is found in the blood of someone with hepatitis C infection and is usually passed on through blood-to-blood contact such as by sharing razors or toothbrushes, or by sharing unsterilised needles.

Applications for funding are invited from charities and community and voluntary organisations. Grants are provided for the provision of nursing or other charitable services for residents of Manchester, Salford and District who are in need of such help by reason of age, sickness or infirmity.

There is no limit to the size of the grant that you can apply for however grants of up to £1.000 have been approved by Trustees.

The GSK IMPACT Awards are an annual scheme, funded by GlaxoSmithKline as part of the company’s commitment to promote community health and well-being. The GSK IMPACT Awards recognise and reward small to medium sized charities that are doing excellent work to improve people’s health.

The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Devolution programme team has developed this survey to talk with people across Greater Manchester.

They want to hear what you think about the Devolution programme and also how they can keep you involved in the future.

All your feedback will be used by the team to help inform their work moving forwards. As a thank you for completing the survey, they are offering the opportunity to enter into a prize draw to win £100 of shopping vouchers.

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.

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.

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.