Healthcare in Greater Manchester
The decision made in July 2015 about acute surgery in Greater Manchester taken by the 12 CCGs with the support of the 10 local authorities was explicitly determined by the interests of patients in High Peak.
Out-of-hours services are provided by GO To DOC in Manchester, Tameside and Oldham, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust in Salford, Bardoc in Bury, Bolton and Rochdale,[5] Mastercall in Stockport, and Trafford and Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Wigan.
A programme which provided more than 50,000 extra GP appointments in central Manchester, Bury and Heywood and Middleton in 2014 brought a 3% reduction in accident and emergency activity, and is to be rolled out across the conurbation.
He appointed Hugh Freeman as a consultant psychiatrist with responsibilities across general and mental hospitals, out-patient clinics, and local authority services in 1961.
Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust paid more than £7 million to private providers over this period.
[13] This decision was challenged by consultants at University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust who launched a campaign under the banner "Keep Wythenshawe Special" and an unsuccessful action for judicial review, claiming the decision was unlawfully based on the impact on travel times for patients outside Greater Manchester.
[21] The Greater Manchester Urgent Primary Care Alliance started using Odyssey, a clinical decision support solution from software provider, Advanced, in 2020.
In 1994 four new district health authorities were established covering Bury and Rochdale, Manchester, West Pennine, Salford and Trafford, while Wigan was unchanged.
12 primary care trusts were established covering the whole of the county in 2002: Ashton, Leigh and Wigan; Bolton; Bury; Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale; Manchester North, South and Central; Oldham; Salford; Stockport; Tameside and Glossop; Trafford.
[27][28] Greater Manchester was one of the four areas chosen to trial the integration of specialised commissioning, previously run by NHS England centrally, in September 2016.
[31] In February 2015 it was announced by George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the conurbation was to be given more control over the NHS budget of around £6 billion per annum.
A health and social care partnership board will be responsible for "shaping the strategic direction" of services in the region from April 2016.
There will be a joint commissioning board consisting of representatives from the councils, CCGs and NHS England which will make "decisions about where funds go".
[33] Norman Warner called the project "Healthopolis" and describes two great strengths: "First, it resolves the fragmentation of leadership, commissioning and service delivery that undermines most modern health and social care systems.
Second, it aligns NHS and social care with other resources that build wellbeing, such as housing, transport and job support, all at the same devolved level."
that 20% of the local population will be offered unprecedented one-to-one, intensive primary and community care, using all available tools, to eliminate at least 60,000 acute hospital admissions a year.
The conurbation was facing a recurring health and social care budget deficit of £500m a year by 2017–18 and it is hoped that this approach will halve the problem.
"The benefits of devolution were apparent in the areas with the highest income deprivation and lowest life expectancy, suggesting a narrowing of inequalities".
Plans include ensuring that a GP made available in the local area for every Greater Manchester resident on Sunday.
[41] In November 2015 it was reported that 'radical scaling up' of shared services between NHS trusts across the conurbation such as diagnostics, back office support and pathology was envisaged in order to save money.
[48] The public-sector IT specialist, Shaping Cloud, was engaged in 2018 to conduct an asset review of the current software applications used across 20 NHS and local government organisations involved in the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership.
[51] The Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, declared a climate emergency in April and produced a sustainable development management plan in January 2020.
This plans to save approximately 2 million pieces of plastic cutlery and 800,000 straws and stirrers per year by switching to sustainable alternatives.
[52] In June 2020 Andy Burnham proposed that Greater Manchester should be a pilot for the next phase of joining up social care with NHS services.
