Mark and Manisha meet the team!
The SCNs’ support team met both NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care’s chief executive Mark Fisher and chief medical officer Dr Manisha Kumar to discuss the challenges and priorities ahead.
Mark and Manisha joined our team meetings to talk about the opportunities and challenges ahead, as well as their early thoughts on the priorities for our city region.
Manisha said she was very keen for clinicians to be at the centre of decisions made to improve health and care, while Mark said he was enjoying meeting people across Greater Manchester and in the process of formulating what his handful of main priorities would be.
He spoke about his involvement in the past with the Troubled Families programme and his interest in supporting the small group of people who regularly use health and care services.
The meeting with Manisha follows her talk at the SCNs’ clinical leads and associates leadership session last month.
The Network hosted its first face-to-face neurorehabilitation annual conference for several years at the AJ Bell Stadium in Eccles.
The event was well-attended, with many also joining online via a YouTube LiveStream which has already been viewed nearly 300 times.
The network was delighted to share a packed programme of thought-provoking talks, which raised key themes around increasing the evidence base and involvement in neurorehabilitation research, as well as highlighting more innovative approaches to patient care.
There was a good mix of charity and commercial stands to keep delegates interested and informed about developments and services.
A poster competition featured 20 entries in the inpatient and community categories, with prizes awarded for winners and runners up.
Network manager Sarah Rickard also made two awards for outstanding contribution to neurorehabilitation, firstly to Dr Fayaz Morcos from the Floyd Unit and Neurorehabilitation network inpatient clinical lead, and also to Ashleigh Knowles, from Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale community neurological rehabilitation team and the network’s community lead.
The event was a fitting tribute to the Network’s long-standing administrator Lisa Chadwick who suddenly passed away this month. The conference was her baby and she was sadly missed.
You can view all the event’s resources here and find out more about the network by visiting www.gmnisdn.org.uk and following @GMNISDN on Twitter.
The Network has worked with Christie’s digital team to produce a web-based, bite-size learning package to improve services for inequality groups.
The online resource is for health and social care professionals and uses a variety of interactive media. The aim is to enhance consideration when supporting care for individuals from any of the inequality groups.
A Different Ending (2016), a Care Quality Commission Report, highlighted 10 inequality groups that did not receive equal access to palliative care services:
- People with conditions other than cancer
- Older people
- People with dementia
- People from Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) groups
- Gypsies and travellers
- People with a learning disability
- People with a mental health condition
- People who are homeless
- People who are in a secure/detained setting
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people
As part of the palliative and end of life care inequalities programme outlined in this video, a collaborative piece of work was completed, commissioned by the Christies School of Oncology, and the hospital’s digital team then produced the web resource with the network.
The online package increases awareness of improving identification of people approaching or at end of life, advance care planning, personalised care, communication, and supporting spirituality/cultural needs.
There is opportunity for the learner to reflect on their practice within each of the modules.
The online learning pack will be launched on Sunday, November 13. See the details in the flyer above to access the resources.
The NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care System held a successful online Cardiovascular Recovery and Prevention event this month.
The meeting, which was organised by the SCNs’ Cardiac Network, together with the Neurorehabilitation and Integrated Stroke Delivery Network and Diabetes Network, followed the regional North West Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Prevent event that was held in June this year.
The meeting was invaluable in exchanging ideas on how to restore our prevention work to pre-COViD levels with the aim of making further improvements. There was a rich discussions reflecting the wide range of expertise at the event.
There was enormous enthusiasm to tackle the major strands of prevention. There was, for example, a widespread acceptance that we have made progress on hypertension whilst we still need to detect a far higher proportion of those with hypertension and then achieve better control. There was a similar consensus on other aspects of prevention.
The meeting gained representation from the wider health and social care system, including NHS, local authorities, third sector, pharmacy and community services.
The project team would like to thank the speakers, facilitators, scribes, event management and our chair, Dr Manisha Kumar.
 Pictured above: The bus and GM Cardiac Network team who spoke to people on the day.
You can now watch video footage of the cardiac bus visit to Manchester city centre.
We reported in past newsletters about the event, which saw free stethoscope checks given to members of the public on the bus, which parked at St Anne’s Square.
Around 430 people had their hearts listened to.
The network team supported the initiative, which saw the bus arrive in the city with staff having already listened to 2,000 hearts nationally, finding more than 200 previously undetected cardiac conditions.
Manchester-based charity Heart Valve Voice, an important partner of the network, organised the tour, which has been to locations across the country. The Valve for Life initiative was also involved in funding the initiative.
You can watch the video footage here.
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