Health and Wellbeing

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.

Having the confidence to have a short conversation about cancer with the public can make a real difference. Cancer Research UK are now offering those who are best-placed in their community to have such conversations, with the chance to attend one of our Talk Cancer training workshops – for free – through our new bursary scheme.

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.