Our Business GM, Greater Manchester’s Directory for empowering the social economy is partnering with systems change agency, Noisy Cricket, to bring together and share learning around community-engaged healthcare.
In the wake of GMCA’s launch of the pioneering Live Well programme in 2024, and the GM Integrated Care Board’s ambition to establish the city region as a national trailblazer through the establishment of a Prevention Demonstrator, Our Business and Noisy Cricket are bringing together progressive projects and services from across the ten boroughs to help inspire current practice, encourage collaboration and inform future investment in this space.
Facilitated by Noisy Cricket’s founder, Lauren Coulman, the Co-operatives UK hosted event will bring together community initiatives, collective endeavours, cross-sector partnerships and place-based programmes to ensure both community and cross-sector lenses on the potential of preventative healthcare.
Designed to allow attendees to engage in meandering exploration, there’ll be diverse perspectives on offer, sharing successes, failures and practical actions to take away. Focusing on how to build trust in alternative approaches to healthcare, we’ll collectively learn about the impact of community engagement on patient outcomes and how it enhances the delivery of healthcare interventions.
With Scott Darraugh from Our Business GM and GMCA’s Eve Holt providing context on the importance of the social economy’s role in reducing pressure on the healthcare systems and improving the health of Greater Manchester’s residents, Our Business GM and Noisy Cricket’s event promises deep learning and rich inspiration on how we can better work collectively in the service of our communities.
Lunch, beverages, space to network and opportunities to openly explore building community trust in healthcare will all be provided.