New opportunities at Together Dementia Support [1]
Due to new funding, Together Dementia Support is anticipating being able to start one or two new neighbourhood activity and support groups for people living with dementia.
Due to new funding, Together Dementia Support is anticipating being able to start one or two new neighbourhood activity and support groups for people living with dementia.
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority and the NHS have published the first formal draft of the Greater Manchester Cancer Education Strategic Plan, commissioned as part of the recently published GM Cancer Plan. A consultation has been opened for groups and individuals to give comments.
Good progress is being made to create a New Manchester-wide hospital trust according to the March 2017 Single Hospital Service Programme Bulletin.
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Public Health Research Programme wishes to commission primary research on the effectiveness of interventions in community organisations for improving health and wellbeing and reducing health inequalities. Proposals must evaluate interventions with the potential for wider future application to build evidence for local decision makers. Studies must have a primary health outcome.
North, Central and South Manchester Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and Manchester City Council are committed to delivering a radical upgrade in prevention and public health, as outlined in the NHS Five Year Forward View. As part of its prevention programme, the CCGs intend to tender a citywide ‘Community Links for Health’ service to support the registered population of Central, North, and South Manchester.
Manchester has ambitious and exciting plans to build a Local Care Organisation (LCO): www.manchesterccgs.nhs.uk/the-lco-prospectus [12]. Michael McCourt has now taken up post as Interim Chief Executive for the Manchester Provider Board (MPB). MPB is a group of providers who intend to bid for the Manchester LCO, currently the subject of ISAP review and intended to be open for procurement in the coming months.
Relate Greater Manchester South will be re-launching as a new organisation, TLC: Talk, Listen, Change from 1 April 2017.
NHS Blood and Transplant has launched a campaign in Manchester and Salford to promote organ donation. There are 143 people in Manchester and Salford waiting for a transplant now. They need people to say yes to organ donation so they can get the organ transplant they need.
New members are always made welcome to the living with and beyond cancer group, which is open to anyone in Manchester and surrounding areas. Everyone has had cancer or is living with the condition. There is a lively chat each time on a different theme with everyone sharing and learning from each other.
The group meets in the Post-Graduate Centre at North Manchester General Hospital at 10am-12noon.
Dates in 2017:
Thursday 6 April, Thursday 8 June, Thursday 10 August, Thursday 5 October, Thursday 14 December.
Thousands of street parties, picnics and baking competitions will be held on 17 and 18 June to remember MP Jo Cox, a year after she was murdered.
Her widower Brendan said the UK-wide event, called The Great Get Together, would be a "fitting tribute" to the mother-of-two who died on 16 June 2016.
Her murder was "designed to divide our country" so uniting in this way would be "a powerful statement", he added.
Links
[1] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/news/new-opportunities-together-dementia-support
[2] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/news-type/sector-news
[3] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/shared-topic-areas/health-and-wellbeing
[4] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/news/greater-manchester-cancer-education-strategic-plan-consultation
[5] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/news-type/policy-news
[6] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/news/manchester-single-hospital-service-update-march-2017
[7] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/news/interventions-community-organisations-improve-health-and-wellbeing-and-reduce-health
[8] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/news/community-links-health-soft-market-testing-event
[9] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/shared-topic-areas/capacity-building
[10] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/shared-topic-areas/policy-and-influence
[11] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/news/social-care-opportunity-manchester-city-develops-plans-local-care-organisation-seeking
[12] http://www.manchesterccgs.nhs.uk/the-lco-prospectus
[13] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/news/relate-greater-manchester-south-relaunch-tlc-talk-listen-change-1-april-2017
[14] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/news/support-organ-donation-manchester-if-you-could-save-life-would-you
[15] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/news/living-and-beyond-cancer-group
[16] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/news/street-parties-planned-remember-murdered-mp-jo-cox
[17] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/shared-topic-areas/health-and-wellbeing?page=116
[18] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/shared-topic-areas/health-and-wellbeing?page=113
[19] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/shared-topic-areas/health-and-wellbeing?page=114
[20] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/shared-topic-areas/health-and-wellbeing?page=115
[21] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/shared-topic-areas/health-and-wellbeing?page=118
[22] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/shared-topic-areas/health-and-wellbeing?page=119
[23] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/shared-topic-areas/health-and-wellbeing?page=120
[24] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/shared-topic-areas/health-and-wellbeing?page=121
[25] https://manchestercommunitycentral.org/category/shared-topic-areas/health-and-wellbeing?page=145