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Date Posted: 13/01/2025

Free Online Poverty Awareness Training - New Dates Available!

NHS GM and Resolve Poverty are working in partnership to tackle poverty as the primary cause of poor health outcomes and early death amongst our population.  As part of this commitment, Resolve Poverty are offering free Poverty Awareness Training to NHS GM staff and Integrated Care Partners that is aimed at exploring the relationship between poverty and health and the steps we can all take to make a difference.

Date Posted: 31/12/24

Building on the success of a national two-year programme that found connecting with nature led to improvements in mental health, Greater Manchester’s funding is being extended for another year. Greater Manchester’s Nature for Health showed that people’s feelings of happiness, satisfaction and of life being worthwhile jumped to near national averages, while levels of anxiety fell significantly. The project also found green social prescribing, which connects people into nature-based, community-led initiatives such as community garden projects and local walking groups is cost-effective compared with other solutions.

Date Posted: 31/12/24

Creative Health Arts Council Funding

A partnership led by NHS Greater Manchester and Greater Manchester Combined Authority will work with public services, health and social care providers, cultural and voluntary organisations, universities and residents to ensure everyone has access to culture and creativity to support their health and wellbeing. This has been made possible following a successful bid to Arts Council England for a grant of £800,000 through its National Lottery funded Place Partnership Fund.

Date Posted: 24/12/2024

Greater Manchester Renews its Mission to Make Smoking History

We are excited to launch the refreshed Making Smoking History in Greater Manchester framework, a six-year strategy (2024–2030) to achieve a smokefree city-region. Since 2017, smoking rates have fallen from 18.4% to 12.5%, with 90,000 people quitting and 6,000 smokefree births. Despite this progress, 284,000 residents still smoke, causing 3,900 deaths annually. The updated strategy aims to reduce smoking to below 5% by 2030 through prevention, cessation, and tobacco control, supported by initiatives like the Smokefree Hospitals Toolkit.