The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership was established in 2015 as one of the first Sustainability and transformation plans in England as a key part of devolution in the United Kingdom.
[2] It sprang from the settlement agreed on November 3, 2014, by George Osborne and was the first agreement to give council leaders a say in the health and social care budget, which in Greater Manchester was about £6 billion a year.
Social care was identified as a major problem very early on, and there was a target to reduce expenditure by £2 billion over five years.
[6] Initiatives included offering pregnant women smokers a £10 voucher for every week they remain smoke-free, with a further £60 if they stay off cigarettes three months after birth.
[7] In August 2021 the Partnerships’ Smoke-free Pregnancy programme, set up in 2018, announced that Smoking at the Time of Delivery rates had fallen by around a quarter in four years – down from 12.6% of new mothers in 2017-18 to 9.8% in 2020-21.