Summary
Next steps in the review of Freedom to Speak Up Guardians across Greater Manchester.
Greater Manchester Primary Care Provider Board (PCB) and NHS Greater Manchester (NHS GM) are reviewing the provision of Freedom to Speak Up Guardians across all aspects of primary care.
Earlier this year providers were asked to complete a survey to help us understand the extent of guardian coverage across primary care in Greater Manchester.
Following a review of the survey results, we want to gather more information so that we can develop support for Freedom to Speak Up Guardians across primary care.
If you are a practice manager or in a leading role in your locality representing community pharmacy, dentistry, general practice or optometry, then we want to hear from you.
Complete this short survey by 6pm on Friday 17 January, 2025.
The results of our survey will help us to co-design with providers an appropriate Freedom to Speak Up Guardian programme across Greater Manchester’s health workforce, including a support network for guardians.
Freedom to Speak Up Guardians support workers to ‘speak up’ when they feel they can’t in other ways. Speaking up can be about anything that gets in the way of patient care, doesn’t feel right or the behaviour of others which you feel is having an impact on your or others’ well-being.
There are more than 1,000 Freedom to Speak Up Guardians in the NHS and independent sector organisations overseen and trained by the National Guardians Office.
The National Guardians office and NHS England recently published guidance around Freedom to Speak Guardians for integrated care boards, to ensure routes to speak up were visible to staff.
For further information, please contact Dominic.Anderson3@nhs.net or luzani.moyo1@nhs.net who are scoping out the current provision for the GM system.
