Health and Wellbeing

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.

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.

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.

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
 

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.

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

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.

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.

The Gaddum Centre, in partnership with Better Things (formerly Manchester Mencap), has been working hard to put in place arrangements to launch the Manchester Advocacy Hub in April. They are working to a comprehensive Hub Implementation Plan, which is reviewed and updated weekly in consultation with Manchester City Council Commissioner Paul Johnston and would like to report to you on the following progress made to date:

Manchester City Council have  published their Market Position Statement for Care and Support 2015/16 and anyone with an interest in the future of care and support in Manchester should read it. Manchester's aim is "to forge a new relationship with its partners to benefit all who need care". The Market Position Statement describes the commissioning approach, the context for commissioning and some of the key issues that Manchester needs to address.