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Hello everyone and welcome to the latest Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership stakeholder bulletin. This will give you a taste of some of the work underway across Greater Manchester’s health and care system.
I’m pleased to be standing in for Mark Fisher, our chief executive, this week while he’s on holiday. I do hope many of you have had a chance to have a break over the last few months. It is likely that we will have many challenges over the Winter and staff wellbeing and resilience is critically important.
I was at our mass vaccination centre on the Etihad campus earlier this week as staff, patients and partners marked its final day of operation. It’s incredible to think that nearly half a million Covid-19 jabs have been delivered since it first opened 19 months ago. It’s a great example of how as a system we are already working as an Integrated Care Partnership - with the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust running the facility, Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust acting as lead employer, Manchester City Council providing the site, and Greater Manchester’s vaccination team (now part of NHS Greater Manchester) providing the funding and overseeing set up. This was in addition to help from Manchester City Football Club, plus St John Ambulance and the military, who were involved in setting up the site. The closure comes as we shift to the next phase of our ongoing Covid-19 vaccination programme (more on this below). It’s important to recognise the impact and learning from not only the mass vaccination site, but also all other vaccination providers across Greater Manchester – hospitals, pharmacy and general practice as we gear up to vaccinate over 1.2 million people as part of the autumn booster offer.
We were pleased to confirm two final non-executive director appointments at our recent board meeting. Dame Sue Bailey will be chair of the Quality and Performance Committee and Kal Kay, chair of the Finance Committee. Both come with extensive experience and I am sure will be invaluable additions to the team.
I hope you find these bulletins useful. Read on to find out more on the great work that is taking place and our plans for the future.
Best wishes,
Manisha
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A comprehensive Covid-19 and flu vaccination programme led by Greater Manchester’s GPs, pharmacies and hospitals will be delivered in local communities in coming weeks.
Teams will start vaccinating care home residents and people who are housebound during the week beginning 5 September. The autumn Covid-19 booster uses a next generation, bivalent vaccine.
All adults aged 50 and over will also be offered the booster, along with frontline health and social care workers, people aged 5 to 49 in a clinical risk group, and people aged 16 to 49 who are carers.
To date, more than 6 million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been given in Greater Manchester. Around 942,000 of all those aged 50+ have had two vaccinations and 859,000 have had a booster.
Nearly half a million vaccine doses were given at the mass vaccination centre at the Etihad Campus, which closed on Tuesday 30 August. Many staff (including those previously new to the NHS) will help to deliver vaccinations in local settings.
The annual flu vaccination campaign will also begin in the coming weeks. Flu jabs will be available to people aged over 65, children aged 2 or 3, primary school aged children, people in clinical risk groups and pregnant women. All carers are eligible along with NHS staff.
Flu and Covid-19 vaccination roll outs are part of a package of NHS measures to prepare for winter, including supporting people to stay well, increasing resilience in primary, community and social care, ramping up bed capacity and increasing the number of 999 and NHS 111 staff. NHS Greater Manchester will be delivering a vaccination communications campaign this autumn/winter, focusing on boosting uptake in at risk groups and tackling health inequalities.
For Covid-19 vaccination bookings go to the National Booking Service, call 119 or find a convenient local walk-in site.
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The Greater Manchester Month of Hope aims to raise awareness of suicide by encouraging people to have open conversations about suicide and play a role in preventing it, while inspiring hope across the city region. It begins with World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September and ends with World Mental Health Day on 10 October. The Month of Hope is delivered as part of the Shining a Light on Suicide Campaign, which aims to bring the issue of suicide out of the dark and break the stigma that surrounds it. A number of events have been organised as part of the month.
World Suicide Prevention Day virtual event
This year’s theme is, ‘Creating Hope Through Action’. Guest speakers will inspire and motivate us all to do what we can to prevent suicide and make a difference. The event will be held via Microsoft Teams from 10am to 12 noon. Click here to book your place.
Speak Their Name Suicide Memorial Quilt on display at Manchester Art Gallery
The Speak Their Name quilt was created during 2020 by suicide bereaved people from across Greater Manchester. The project enabled them to gain peer support and learn crafting skills. It will be on display from 10 September.
Film screening: the £1.7 Million Pound Haircut
This documentary about how Tom Chapman started the Lions Barber Collective charity after the death of a friend, will be shown on Monday 12 September from 6.30pm to 8pm at Ducie Street Warehouse. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Tom Chapman, interviewed by Mike McCarthy, a suicide bereaved Dad, suicide prevention campaigner, and former Sky News and BBC presenter/reporter. Click here to book your place.
Pop-up barbers offers free haircuts and chance to chat
The Lions Barber Collective have arranged a pop-up barbers on Tuesday 13 September at Piccadilly Railway Station, in partnership with Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership. Staff trained in suicide awareness will give free haircuts and chat to passengers and commuters who feel they want to talk.
Words of Hope poetry event
Compered by Salford poet “J” Ahmed, the event will include poetry readings from a wide range of people who have found writing, reading, and sharing poetry has helped them through difficult times. The event will be held at Stretford Public Hall from 7pm to 9pm. Click here to book your place.
The completed Speak Their Name Suicide Memorial Quilt
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NHS Greater Manchester has been working in partnership with local authorities, the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, the UK Strategic Health Authority (UKSHA) and others to share key public health information around monkeypox. The aim is to support people to stay safe and promote vaccine take up and clinics to people who are eligible.
Almost 40,000 leaflets were delivered during Manchester Pride Weekend at a range of venues and locations. Over 2,200 vaccines have been given to people who are most at risk of getting monkeypox.
We are expecting to receive more vaccines this month and will contact those who are eligible in due course.
You can find out more about monkeypox at:
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Greater Manchester’s Green Plan was recently the focus of the Net Hero podcast produced by online news platform, Future Net Zero. In the interview with Sarah Price (our chief officer for population health and inequalities), host Sumit Bose asks how we plan to halve our carbon emissions in three years and reach net zero by 2038.
Sarah talks about the opportunities available in a range of areas of including sustainable energy, electric vehicles, asthma inhalers, reusable surgical instruments, increased use of digital technology, active travel, changes to the supply chain, reducing plastic use, and healthy life expectancy. The discussion touches on the importance of the NHS taking action on carbon emissions and the resulting health benefits. Sarah also explains that we are currently working jointly on a delivery plan with key leads across the system to set out the detail and timescales for each area, identifying any ‘small wins.’
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Walking aids, such as walking sticks, frames, rollators and crutches, can be safely refurbished and reused repeatedly. Boosting return and reuse will help improve access for patients, reduce carbon emissions and save money.
NHS trusts are being encouraged to use National Recycle Week (19 - 25 September) as an opportunity to start or boost an existing return and reuse scheme. This annual awareness raising week is run by environmental charity WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme). This year trusts can add drop off locations for walking aids to WRAP’s Recycle Now online tool so people can find easily find their nearest or most convenient. In addition to hospital sites, 15 of the 20 Recycle for Greater Manchester recycling centres are able to receive walking aids.
Return and reuse schemes can help to support faster and safer patient discharges by ensuring there is a ready supply of walking aids and the right equipment is available at the right time. Care teams are encouraged to discuss the return of equipment with patients when agreeing care and support plans, including clear guidance on how and where to return them. Increasing return rates can also provide an effective route to take potentially defective equipment out of circulation, improving patient safety.
Do you work for an NHS trust? Join the Central Commercial Function (CCF) Hub on FutureNHS for more information including planning packs and how to guides. You can add a drop off location to Recycle Now by completing this form.
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