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Health and wellbeing

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Call for primary care leaders to prioritise wellbeing

5 May 2025

The Primary Care Wellbeing Leadership Programme returns with new dates in May and June.

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Anti-poverty training courses in May

23 April 202522 April 2025

Understand the types of financial support available, how to use data, and the value of engaging people with lived experience of poverty.

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Additional resources to help combat bullying and harassment in the workplace

22 April 2025

Health and care workers’ real-life scenarios are portrayed in videos aimed at raising awareness of inappropriate behaviour.

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GM wellbeing and mental health support

22 April 2025

Helpful document brings together updated information about the range of support available to health and care workers.

Read more about GM wellbeing and mental health support
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Free masterclass in how to look after yourself when looking after others

14 February 2025

The session will cover why self-care is so important and provide practical solutions to support yourself.

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New health and wellbeing training for primary care leaders

14 January 2025

Learn how to build your own wellbeing and engage your teams for better patient outcomes.

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New critical incident and trauma support service

17 October 2024

Free, confidential mental health support for GM health and care staff.

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Health and wellbeing training and resources

8 October 2024

Online courses will help you to support yourself and others.

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Greater Manchester’s Month of Hope

10 September 2024

Free training to bring the issue of suicide out of the dark and break the stigma that surrounds it.

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Wellbeing training for the primary care workforce

23 May 202420 May 2024

Add to your learning and development with the latest workforce wellbeing training.

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Occupational health survey for primary care providers

12 February 20249 February 2024

Review of occupational health provision across GM primary care.

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Tell us if you have a Freedom to Speak Up Guardian

6 February 20244 February 2024

Review of Freedom to Speak Up Guardians in primary care.

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Workforce wellbeing support

19 December 2023

Support is available to people working in primary care who may find this time of year a struggle. This includes, mental health support, financial advice and guidance, and training opportunities.

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Health and wellbeing support for PCNs

24 November 2023

PCB offer to support PCNs or individual practices with health and wellbeing.

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Putting on a brave face? New campaign aimed at health and care staff

20 July 2023

‘Putting on a brave face?’ is a new campaign aimed at health and care staff across Greater Manchester.

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Latest podcast explains new workforce wellbeing QOF indicator

10 July 2023

Our latest podcast focuses on how practices can meet the requirements of the new QOF QI workforce wellbeing module.

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Greater Manchester Health and Wellbeing toolkit relaunch

28 June 202328 June 2023

NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care has relaunched the Greater Manchester Health and Wellbeing toolkit.

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New Health and Wellbeing Pack for Wellbeing Apps

18 November 202218 November 2022

A new Health and Wellbeing Pack has been added to our Digital App Finder.

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Resources for men’s health including workshop on 17 November

17 November 202216 November 2022

This month is Men’s Health Month, and there’s a whole host of resources available for those working in Primary Care.

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Financial wellbeing resources

24 October 202224 October 2022

Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership has prepared updated resources and links to support the financial wellbeing of the health and care workforce. 

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Wellbeing and menopause

24 October 202218 October 2022

To mark World Menopause Day on 18 October, a free access to menopause resource has been launched for the health and care workforce.

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Free wellbeing workshops Oct-Dec 22

7 October 20226 October 2022

A series of online webinars to support everyone in your team are running between October and December. They focus on different aspects of managing stress, managing your teams, conflict, productivity and wellbeing.

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Insight into … Menopause and the workplace

11 September 20225 May 2022

In this episode of the Health & Wellbeing Podcast GM Wellbeing Toolkit creator Sheni Ravji-Smith is joined by Dr Cath Munro to discuss menopause in the workplace and the things that we might want to pay attention to keep ourselves well.

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Insight into … Musculoskeletal Impacts of Work

11 September 20227 April 2022

In this episode of the Health & Wellbeing Podcast GM Wellbeing Toolkit creator Sheni Ravji-Smith is joined by John Brady from GreaterSport, and Stephen Lunt from the Business Hub Group to explore what we can do to build in more activity workplaces and better movement into our working days.

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Insight into … Wellbeing Champions

11 September 202224 March 2022

In this episode of the Health & Wellbeing Podcast GM Wellbeing Toolkit creator Sheni Ravji-Smith is joined by Michelle Maloney and Ann Carey to discuss the importance of Wellbeing Champions in the workplace.

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Effectively Managing Change

11 September 202210 March 2022

Our guest for this episode of the Health and Wellbeing podcast is Louise Gelder, Senior Improvement and Leadership Advisor with Aqua, who offers some amazing insights and advice about effectively managing change. 

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Wellbeing: Getting the basics right

11 September 202224 February 2022

In this episode of the Health & Wellbeing Podcast Rusty Carroll discusses the importance of healthy wellbeing in an organisation.

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How new leaders can become great leaders in supporting health and wellbeing

11 September 202210 February 2022

In the latest episode of the Health & Wellbeing Podcast Dr. Becci Pierce, Advancing Quality Programme Manager with Aqua, discusses how new leaders can become great leaders in supporting health and wellbeing.

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Become a workplace Wellbeing Champion

11 September 20223 February 2022

Register to become a workplace Wellbeing Champion and join the growing Greater Manchester Primary Care Wellbeing Champions Network.

Read more about Become a workplace Wellbeing Champion
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Touch 10: My mental wellbeing

11 September 202227 January 2022

In the latest episode of the Health & Wellbeing podcast Janet Castrogiovani is joined by Lynn Marsland to discuss Touch 10 and the Personal Wellbeing Barometer, tools to stimulate conversations to provide a way of tracking your own mental wellbeing.

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Psychological safety within the NHS

11 September 202213 January 2022

In this episode of the Health & Wellbeing Podcast Lynn Marsland is joined by Pete Ledwith from AQuA to discuss psychological safety.

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Introduction to Mindfulness

11 September 202223 December 2021

In the third episode of the Health and Wellbeing Podcast Lynn Marsland speaks to Ian Rigg about mindfulness and meditation.

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Greater Manchester Resilience Hub

11 September 20229 December 2021

In the second episode of the Health and Wellbeing Podcast Lynn Marsland speaks to Dr. Ruth Watson from the Greater Manchester Resilience Hub.

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Introducing our Primary Care workforce to the Greater Manchester Wellbeing Toolkit

11 September 202225 November 2021

We kick off the new Health & Wellbeing Podcast series talking about the Greater Manchester Health and Care Partnership online toolkit for workforce wellbeing – freely available to everyone working within a primary care setting in GM. 

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