Health and Wellbeing

As part of the Age-friendly Manchester programme, the Lord Mayor Sue Cooley has launched the Age-friendly Manchester Challenge. The challenge is to Manchester organisations, residents, groups, companies and others who would like to make the city more age-friendly and pledge action to carry out across 2015.

This could be to develop a new project with older people, to work with older people in new and different ways or to change work practices so they are age-friendly.

The Big Lottery funded Dementia Friendly New Moston campaign is gearing up to deliver much needed information and support sessions for people living with dementia, their carers, businesses and groups in the area and the team is waiting for your call.

Many people with dementia report feeling trapped in their own homes and let down by their communities, with just one in three getting out once a week and one in ten only once a month.

The Big Lottery funded Dementia Friendly Hulme campaign is gearing up to deliver much needed information and support sessions for people living with dementia, their carers, businesses and groups in the area and the team is waiting for your call.

A Project Steering Group will be recruited to meet quarterly, attracting members from local businesses, service organisations, carers and people living with dementia to guide this programme.

This year you could give someone the greatest gift they will ever receive, simply by rolling up your sleeves and giving blood. Blood transfusions are vital to patients in hospitals; whether as a support to a cancer patient, to stem blood loss in child birth, or to treat a blood disorder, and really do make a massive difference to the lives of others – not just the recipient, but their family and friends as well.

Are you an unpaid carer living in Manchester?

NHS North, Central and South Manchester Clinical Commissioning Groups value the contribution carers make in helping some of the most vulnerable people in our communities live with dignity, independence and a quality of life.

Carers are recognised as expert care partners and the Clinical Commissioning Groups are seeking your views about how to provide carers with the best possible support.

This is your opportunity to give them your feedback in a short survey.

Manchester City Council has launched the main consultation on its 2015-17 budget options, along with a number of individual consultations on specific elements.

Options for consultation were agreed by the council’s Executive on Wednesday 26 November.

They aim to address an estimated funding shortfall of £59m in 2015/16, potentially rising to £90 million in 2016/17.