All Health and Wellbeing
Bid for funding to tackle food poverty
Manchester City Council is inviting voluntary and other third sector groups to bid for a share of a new £250,000 fund which will combat food poverty in the city.
Manchester City Council has made the additional funding available under its Local Welfare Scheme to help the most vulnerable residents in crisis situations, for example the homeless or those fleeing violence or domestic abuse.
A Systematic Review of Research on Community Engagement to Reduce Inequalities in Health
Collecting evidence about whether community engagement works is difficult, far more difficult than measuring the effectiveness of a new medicine. A new report looks at 361 studies and concludes overall that community engagement works.
The review considered the following questions:
Manchester Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
The Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) analyses the health needs of populations to inform and guide commissioning of health, well-being and social care services within local authority areas. The main goal of the Manchester JSNA is to accurately assess the health needs of the population in order to improve the physical and mental health and well-being of individuals and communities.
Age-friendly Manchester Small Grants
Manchester City Council publish Market Position Statement on Adult Social Care
Manchester City Council have published their first Market Position Statement concerning Adult Social Care.
North West Ambulance Service - Patient Experience
The North West Ambulance Service is continually looking for ways in which they can improve the experience of the patients they serve throughout the North West.
Following the success of the original award winning board game, the Patient Experience team have developed a new second board game based around the theme of ‘There is more to your ambulance service than you think’ and has been designed after receiving feedback from community groups.
Involvement in Local Health Structures
NAVCA is conducting a survey of the sector's involvement in health structures and in determining local health and social care priorities.
Healthwatch Manchester quick survey on personal health budgets
Healthwatch Manchester is aware that there is a limited amount of information available to people around Personal Health Budgets.
This survey seeks not only to provide them with more detailed information about this issue but also to provide you with some basic facts about Personal Health Budgets.
To complete the survey, visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VS3KWYC
This survey will close on 30 November 2013.
Lobbying and Transparency Bill
At our Spirit of Manchester awards event last month one of the categories was for Most Successful Campaign. We wanted to acknowledge campaigning work because we’ve always believed that it’s the job of charities not just to meet needs but to drive change for the longer term. The history of social change in this country has been driven by the campaigning efforts of groups for centuries.