Fairer Health for All in Action – GM System Priorities

Fairer Health for All in Action Through Population Health Themes

Explore the themes below showcasing our city-region approach to Population Health.

Community Power Shifting - COMING SOON

Community Power Shifting is about redistributing decision-making power to communities, ensuring that those most affected by health and social challenges have a voice in shaping policies, programmes and solutions that impact their lives.

CORE20PLUS5

​CORE20PLUS5 is an NHS England framework designed to reduce healthcare inequalities by focusing on the most deprived 20% of the population (CORE20), plus other high-risk groups, and addressing five key clinical areas to improve health outcomes (PLUS5). Here are some tools and resources to help you implement the Core20Plus5 framework in GM.​​​

Equality and Inclusion

Equality and inclusion in population health ensures that everyone, regardless of background or circumstances, has fair access to healthcare, resources and opportunities to achieve their best possible health outcomes. Learn how GM is tackling injustice and advancing equality in our workforces, alongside addressing existing inequality, in our health and care delivery.

Health Literacy - COMING SOON

Health literacy means being able to access, understand, and use information and services in ways that help improve and maintain good health. It is about communicating health information in ways that people can understand. Read how we intend to achieve our vision to build a health literate system across Greater Manchester.

Leadership: Doing Things Differently

Leadership in population health is about driving systemic change, fostering collaboration, and implementing strategies that improve health outcomes and reduce disparities across communities. In Greater Manchester we are thinking about open, honest and moving conversations of ‘what’ leadership we need to develop and ‘how’ we need to develop it differently.

Live Well - Community Led Health & Wellbeing

Live Well is Greater Manchester’s movement for community-led health and wellbeing, supporting healthier, happier and fairer communities by growing opportunities for everyone to Live Well.

Making Smoking History

In Greater Manchester we are on our way to delivering a smokefree city-region. There has been some excellent local delivery in recent years within the boroughs across our city-region, where overall smoking prevalence rates has fallen from 18.4% in 2016 to 12.5% in 2023.

Prevention & Proactive Care

Prevention and proactive care focuses on keeping people healthy by addressing risk factors early, promoting well-being, and ensuring timely interventions to help people live well and independently for longer, especially those with multiple long-term conditions. Learn more about Greater Manchester's approach to prevention and proactive care including person-centred care, oral health and women's health.

Sustainability - COMING SOON

Sustainable healthcare delivers high quality care without damaging the environment, is affordable now and in the future and delivers positive social impact.  NHS Greater Manchester’s vision is to improve the health and wellbeing of all residents of Greater Manchester whilst minimising environmental impacts through the delivery of sustainable healthcare and increasing focus on public health.

Tackling Poverty Toolkit - COMING SOON

Tackling poverty is essential to reducing health inequalities, ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to live a healthy life regardless of their socioeconomic background. Check out Greater Manchester's Tackling Poverty Toolkit to find guidance, case studies, research, development opportunities, plus more.