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Introducing the Greater Manchester Live Well Podcast
The trailer for a new home-grown series about public services doing things differently with communities is now live. The GM Live Well Podcast explores public services taking a new approach to ensure everyone gets the everyday support they need. It will discover what happens when our communities are trusted to lead and what systems can do to lend ‘a helping hand, not a hoop to jump through’. The series unpacks this approach to prevention as a better way forward. What we call Live Well in Greater Manchester.
Blogs
Read our latest blogs shared by various system partners, illustrating Fairer Health for All in action
Events ...
Growing the Movement Online Event
Join us this September as GM Moving in Action celebrates five years of driving the Active Lives for All mission across Greater Manchester. Developed with over 2,000 people and partners, this milestone event will showcase achievements, share key learning, explore future priorities, and inspire collective action. Hear from leaders including Bev Craig OBE, Hayley Lever, Tom Stannard, Charlotte Bailey, Adam Rigarlsford, and community organisations championing the role of movement, physical activity and sport in improving health, wellbeing, communities and the environment. Open to system partners, VCFSE organisations, sports clubs, education providers, health settings and more, this is an opportunity to connect, learn and help shape the next chapter of Active Lives for All.
Time: 13:00-15:00
Identifying Misinformation and Disinformation
An online training session hosted by UKHSA Knowledge and Library Services on 29 September 2026 will explore how to recognise and respond to misinformation and disinformation in public health settings.
Time: 11:00-12:30
As part of the 2026 CPD programme, colleagues are invited to attend an online oral health learning session on 29 September 2026. The session will explore oral health improvement, reducing oral health inequalities, and the impact of local environments and commercial influences on oral health, with presentations from public health and dental public health experts.
Time: 13:00-14:15
Consultation on Tobacco and Vapes: Packaging, Appearance and Display
Public health professionals are encouraged to respond to the Government’s consultation on proposed regulations for tobacco, vape and nicotine product packaging, appearance, and display. The consultation closes at 11:59pm on 2 October 2026 – you can respond to the consultation using the online survey here. Individual responses are encouraged to help demonstrate support for evidence-based measures to reduce smoking and vaping-related harm. Further information, including response guidance, is available from ASH.
The consultation closes at 23:59 on 2 October 2026
Do you have an event related to Fairer Health for All that you want to share? Email nhsgm.fhfa@nhs.net