Covid Considerations: Weathering the storm of Covid-19

Clenton Farquharson shares his personal experience of lockdown whilst exploring how we are handling our emotions and looks to rebuilding the future with hope and courage.
How shifting mindsets helps shift power

Nicola Wood (Tameside & Glossop NHS) writes the 5th in our Greater Manchester series of blogs exploring person and community centred heath and social care.
Building the bridge: creating culture change in public sector services

Nick Dixon explores how person and community centred approaches to health and social care are changing the landscape in Greater Manchester.
The Enduring Legacy of Edinburgh’s Eric Liddell Centre

Following the footsteps of its namesake, Edinburgh’s Eric Liddell Centre is providing inspiring holistic care for those suffering with Alzheimer’s/dementia.
Crossing the river: re-thinking power and influence in public sector services

The first instalment of a six-part series of blogs explores how devolution and a new health/ social-care prospectus can reform Manchester’s public services.
Interview with Kar Man Chung, a pioneering Community Pharmacist

What if we could go to pharmacies to do more than provide medicine? We spoke to Kar Man Chung, a community pharmacist finding new ways of working in the community.
For the Love of Dudley

earn about how we focused on ‘story-listening’ to help Dudley’s Health & Wellbeing Board hear from local residents and shape their future commissioning.
Report review: Social Care a Local Economic Solution for the West Midlands

We summarise the New Economic Foundation’s report which makes a forceful case for localised money flows; money spent with locally rooted companies is more likely to go to local suppliers and thus the local economy.