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September News

NHS in Greater Manchester declares a climate emergency

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NHS organisations in Greater Manchester have declared a climate emergency, committing to far-ranging action to slash carbon emissions and avert predicted illness and disease.

The NHS bodies that make up the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership have mirrored the recent decision of Greater Manchester Combined Authority and seven of the 10 Greater Manchester councils to date in this action.

It makes us the first “integrated care system” – NHS bodies and council social care working together – to declare a climate emergency.

We will now develop and agree a plan before the end of the year that will show how the NHS will meet its obligations under the Climate Change Act to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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Successful quitters celebrate first year of the smokefree pregnancy programme

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We’re celebrating the first year of the smokefree pregnancy programme.

Since the programme was launched an additional 250 babies have been born in Greater Manchester smoke free.

To mark the occasion parents and their babies, who were helped by the programme, along with maternity staff - gathered at Ingleside Birth Centre, Swinton on Thursday 9 August.

Official figures show that the percentage of women smoking at the time of delivery has fallen by nearly one percentage point in the last year, while it has remained static in the rest of England.

The programme provides pregnant smokers with specialist support to help them quit, including free nicotine replacement therapy.

The Smokefree Pregnancy Programme has paid for specialist training for midwives and the recruitment of midwifery support workers to help expectant mothers who are smokers.

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Care at home should have a personal touch – we spoke to Cicely and Marie to learn about their experience

 

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‘Person-centred’ care and support is a way of thinking and doing things that sees the people using health and care services as equal partners in planning and developing the support they receive.

This means putting people and families at the centre of decisions about their care and support.

To find out what that looks like in practice we spoke with Tameside resident Cicely Mayall, 86, along with Marie a member of the team at Tameside Direct Ltd, who provides her support.

 

 

Read Cicely’s story 

Plans unveiled to transform care in early years, dementia and frailty through innovative digital technology

Greater Manchester’s NHS and councils are working together to develop and test new technologies that will join up information across public services.

Under the new plans, technologies will be developed to allow the safe and secure sharing of information between professionals, improve the accuracy of data and provide people with insights to take charge of their own health and wellbeing. 

The technology will first be tested to improve care for people living with dementia or who are frail by allowing critical information to be shared between patients, carers and professionals.

It will also be used to digitise the paper-based assessments used to review a child’s development up to the age of five. Parents and guardians will be able to complete the tests online, which will directly feed into the child’s health record and help identify children who need additional support.

The Greater Manchester Combined Authority is contributing up to £6.8m as part of the project, with a further £7.5m coming from the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership.

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If you’re coming to NHS Expo, see you there

The NHS Health and Care Innovation Expo is taking place at Manchester Central on 4 and 5 September.

Expo is the biggest NHS-led event of the year. Taking place annually, it welcomes around 5,000 people from the NHS, social care, local government, third sector and the commercial sector.

Representatives from across Greater Manchester will be presenting on a broad range of subjects and taking part in a number of discussions, including: workforce and race equality and how technology is supporting preventative and personalised care.

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