Manchester Royal Infirmary: ‘Experience Based Design’

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At Manchester Royal Infirmary we are committed to ensuring we provide the best possible service to you. We appreciate that when you attend the outpatient department, you may not always have the opportunity to tell us how things have been for you.  We want to work with you to design services that give you the best possible experience.  We are keen to undertake some filmed interviews to understand what really matters to our patients – if you are willing and interested in being involved, please contact Sarah Watson on 0161 701 8115.

 

On Tuesday 26th April between 1pm and 3pm, Manchester Royal Infirmary is holding an event in the main Outpatient area, for all patients, carers and our teams. This event is part of an on-going project called Experience Based Design which uses patient and staff experiences to ensure hospital services are at their best. During the event, we would love you to offer any feedback you have based on your experience here as well as help us shape improvements we could make in the future. We will have a short video to show you what other patients and staff have said about their experience as well as displays and posters to share ideas. Our staff here will be available to talk to you about the hospital, your experience and suggestions.

 

This is a real opportunity to get involved with the team here to shape the services we provide and we would be so proud if you could help, given your recent visit to us. So that we can confirm numbers for the event, I would be grateful if you could contact Sarah Watson on 0161 701 8115 to confirm your attendance.

European project will tackle ageing’s impacts

Manchester Met joins €6.5m EU consortium

MANCHESTER Met research is leading the way in tackling the challenge of dementia, hearing and vision loss, and cognition impairment across Europe.

A European-wide consortium – one of the first projects in the European Commission Horizon 2020 research programme – will investigate the impact of these conditions in the elderly.

The five-year €6.5m project, SENSE-Cog, aims to examine this combined impact and develop new tools that could improve quality of life of patients and caregivers, and optimise health and social care services across Europe.

Dr Abebaw Yohannes, Reader in Physiotherapy, is leading SENSE-Cog research at Manchester Met.

Detection, diagnosis, intervention

He will be seeking to:

• To understand the links between hearing, vision, cognitive and emotional systems in various dimensions in elderly Europeans in different communities so as to promote early diagnosis, referral and develop interventions to improve care for elderly Europeans

• To improve the early detection and diagnosis of sensory, cognitive and emotional problems in older people through specially adapted assessment and e-health check tools

• To determine the effectiveness of a newly developed vision and hearing support intervention in improving quality of life and functional ability in people with dementia and their caregivers. In addition, he will be raising awareness and disseminating the findings that sensory health – hearing and vision – is a key feature of mental wellbeing of older people

He said: “Europe is faced with an ageing population and we want to be at the forefront of ensuring elderly people lives are as comfortable as possible and improve their quality of life, while equipping health and social care organisations with the right tools to tackle the challenges ahead.

Perfect storm

“The cumulative impact of dementia, sight and hearing loss, and depression is far greater than each on their own. We want to be able to improve the quality of life in these areas and provide health organisations across Europe with the insight they need to inform decisions around health and social care budgets.”

This project is expected to produce new research, patentable materials and screening tools for vision, hearing and cognition impairment.

The project involves 17 European Union organisations, which includes universities, healthcare service providers, voluntary and non-voluntary organisations and industry.

The consortium is led by the University of Manchester and launched in February.

The Manchester Strategy

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If you were one of the tens of thousands reached by our consultation on how to make Manchester into the place youd want to live, work, play and do business in 2025, thank you for being part of such a huge, inspiring response.The strategy is the culmination of that response. People’s commitment to the city, and their desire to see its future success, shine through it, and it a credit to all who contributed including:

  • Manchester residents themselves, in their thousands
  • the city army of volunteers (our city has around 100,000) from tiny clubs to business-scale operations, and community activists
  • a wide non-resident public – some of our city biggest fans – who work in the city or visit to enjoy our varied culture and leisure
  • business and civic leaders from the city and the city region who added their valuable insights, revealing the extent of their own crucial part in delivering Manchester success.

Responses from across the city were many and varied, but a few themes came through again and again. People of Manchester share the desire to see the city do well, to see Manchester use and value its green spaces, to have a clean city with one of the best public transport systems in the world, to preserve its historic buildings and support those in need.

Read more: http://www.manchester.gov.uk/info/500313/the_manchester_strategy

Parks strategy consultation | toolkit

We are currently gathering views to influence and shape a strategy for Manchester’s parks for the next 10 years.
We’d like to engage as many residents as possible to get involved and complete our survey manchester.gov.uk/parksurvey.

The survey closes on 31 May 2016
I’d be really grateful if you would help us spread the word via your contacts.

I’ve put together a toolkit to help communicate with residents which includes:

  • a briefing note with information about the consultation
  • a poster
  • some copy that could be used in newsletters or posted websites etc
  • social media messages
  • a few images to use on social media

I hope this is useful and thank you in advance for your support.

If you have any queries or would like any further information please contact:

Sarah Hawkins
Neighbourhood Officer
Public Realm
The Neighbourhoods Service
Growth and Neighbourhoods
Manchester City Council
Hammerstone Road Depot
Gorton
Manchester
M18 8EQ

Internal 800 35405
Tel: 0161 234 5405
Mob: 07795604057
Fax:
Email: s.hawkins@manchester.gov.uk
http://www.manchester.gov.uk
Parks Consultation Poster

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Parsonage gardens in Didsbury, judging taking place for the Britain in Bloom awards at this garden and a number of other locations around Didsbury. The gardens are kept looking great by an army of volunteers Pictured Volunteer Junko pop ham aged 70 in the gardens

Social media messages

Briefing Note – Parks Strategy and Consultation

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Tai Chi /Qigong at JNR8

 

 Weekly Tai Chi/Qigong

Thursdays at JNR8 from 1:30-2:30pm

Tai Chi Chuan is a martial art and fitness regime to develop a healthy body and tranquil mind, with physical, mental and health benefits.

This Monday well-being class can also benefit people with back problems.

For men and women of all ages: please tell you family, friends, neighbours and colleagues!

Free of charge – but £1 donation appreciated

A guide to Tai Chi

All you need to know about tai chi, including the health benefits, different styles and getting started.

http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/fitness/Pages/taichi.aspx

 

 

Food dumping in Alexandra Park…

A Cleaner, Safer, Greener Alexandra Park.

(Taken from Dave Saunders post on Facebook 21.03/2016)
Another treasured pet dog became ill after eating food in the park last weekend. She is still in danger 5 days later.

I was in the park today and came across some very mouldy rice and chunks of bread in the lake. The rice was eaten by several dogs.

At the Friends meeting on Tuesday we decided to take action with a strategy to promote better behaviour through education and encouraging reporting of issues.

Over feeding the wildlife and food dumping are not the only problems. Dog fouling persists and some dogs are a menace. Motorcycles zoom around the park and there can be anti social behaviour.

The aim is to educate and ask park users to help. Education will be about the issues – and -about how to report problems and summon assistance as well as the penalties for littering/dog fouling/failure to control a dog etc..

We will be promoting Cleaner, Safer, Greener online, with signs and posters in the park and by contacting community and faith groups in the area to ask that they spread the word.

Besides reporting problems to the council through their website, there is a parks security service who respond rapidly when called. I never knew this, but these guys have similar powers to PCSO’s and the supervisors have trained dogs. For more serious emergencies, people can use 101 or 999.
I think that raising awareness of this will enable more people to flag up problems, and act as a deterrent to bad behaviour.

I’ll be preparing a proposal for the next Friends meeting and welcome your ideas and comments.