Reports

2011 Cheetham Hill Appreciative Inquiry Event
‘Highlighting good practice’: A multi- agency approach to improving Mental Health & Wellbeing in Cheetham Hill and Manchester.
This is a report of a successful approach taken by key public and voluntary sector agencies in Manchester to collaborate to improve mental health and wellbeing in a high need area in North Manchester.

2010 North Manchester 5 Ways to Mental Health and Wellbeing
Report from the event held in July 2010

2010 Radical efficency different, better, lower cost public services
Radical Efficiency makes an argument for not tweaking existing services but "generating new perspectives on old problems". It is based on "hundreds of evidenced based examples from around the world", and is being put into practice in a joint project between NESTA and the Innovation Unit working with Local authorities to transform early years provision.

2010 Mental Health and Wellbeing Commissioning Strategy
Mental health and wellbeing strategy from the Joint Commissioning Team

2009 Adults Health and Wellbeing Partnership Delivery Plan
This is the final version of the Adults Health and Wellbeing Partnership's Partnership Delivery Plan: Increasing life expectancy and reducing health inequalities, following the consultation period in August 2009. This document has been produced in response to recommendations from the Health Inequalities National Support Team. It sets out the thematic action plan for the Partnership and details each programme of work that the Partnership will deliver over the next two years, in order to improve health and wellbeing in Manchester. It has been approved by the Adults Health and Wellbeing Partnership Board and the NHS Manchester Board.

2008 Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health Care
In 2007 CSIP North West commissioned MACC to develop proposals for building the capacity of Black and Minority Ethnic community organisations in relation to Delivering Race Equality in Mental Health Care.
This paper summarises the recommendations and key messages and is intended to stimulate discussion between stakeholders.

2008 Building the Capacity of Third Sector Organisations in Greater Manchester
In 2007 the Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) commissioned MACC to carry out an enquiry into ways of maximising the contribution of black and minority ethnic community initiatives to the Delivering Race Equality Action Plan. The report outlines the findings and key messages of our work.

The Harrington Review Part 2
The second independent review of the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) has been published.
More than 425 individuals and organisations responded to the call for evidence earlier this year, and these responses were helpful in forming final conclusions and recommendations.
The review concludes that real progress has been made this year, but that further changes are needed to the WCA and therefore, makes a series of recommendations which build on and complement the recommendations from the year one review.
Professor Harrington has been asked to carry out a third review in 2012 and requests that organisations continue to provide evidence of where further changes to the WCA are needed so its fairness and effectiveness can continue to be improved.

Welfare Reform a Basic Guide
A basic guide to welfare reform, the IB reassessment, how to support people and where to signpost people for support.

Public Health in Manchester
Below is an update we've received from David Regan, Director of Public Health about the changes to the Public Health services in Manchester. As previously announced, public health functions will soon move into the City Council.

The Joint Commissioning Board and the Greater Manchester Cluster
New governance arrangements have been put in place for NHS Manchester joint commissioning of mental health, childrens, prisons and other specialist services.
The document explains the role, purpose, membership and accountability for these arrangements and includes a map outlining the links between the different groups. It might be helpful to think of the GP consortia and the joint commissioning management board as equivalent to the old PCT and; The Greater Manchester Cluster ss equivalent to the Strategic Health Authority

Professor Malcom Harrington's review of the Work Capability Assessment
This review found "clear and consistent critiscisms of the whole system", and evidence that the system can be "impersonal and mechanistic"; lacking transparency and that "poor communication between all parties contributes to poor decision making and a high number of appeals".
The full document is available below. Annex A 1 through 14 gives a clear summary of actions.
The government has fully supported the findings of the review see page 10 and 11 from the second link which is the governments response.

Link: The Harrington Review
Link: The governments response

External Assessment of Manchester Mental Health Services
This report was jointly commissioned by the PCT and the Local Authority. It was carried out by an independent team led by John Boyington CBE and was published in July 2008

Resource for people bereaved by suicide and other sudden, traumatic death
This guide is aimed at the wide range of people who are affected by suicide or other sudden, traumatic death. It aims firstly to help people who are unexpectedly bereaved in this way. It also provides information for healthcare and other professionals who come into contact with bereaved people, to assist them in providing help and to suggest how they themselves may find support if they need it.