News and Events

International Women's Day is a global day (this year, taking place on Monday 8^th March 2021) celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.

Written by Olivia Sale (CARMS Volunteer) and Lucy Monk (CARMS Research Assistant)

The findings of a survey by Jaclyn Pickup, a Senior Mental Health Practitioner at GMMH, have been published in the Nursing Times.

Sing yourself to better health this spring with FREE sessions from buzz Manchester Health & Wellbeing Service and Singing Tutor Martin!

Digital Buddies is a new ‘social connection’ and support project organised by Salford Foundation in Salford and Trafford as part of their COVID-19 response. We are linking people in these communities to trained young people to help with any digital and tech issues they may be having, as well as to have a chat and form a friendship in these isolating times.

buzz Manchester Health & Wellbeing Service’s Physical Activity Referral Service (PARS) are currently delivering over 30 online exercise classes a week through Microsoft Teams. In normal times all exercise classes are delivered out in the community, but since the start of the pandemic the team have quickly adapted to the challenging situation and moved all classes online.

Plans to build a new adult mental health unit on the North Manchester General Hospital site took a significant step forward as planning consent was obtained for the proposed development.

We are really proud to announce two new free Recovery Academy webinars with The University of Law – one of the UK’s largest law schools.

During lockdown and while we remain unable to meet each face to face, we want to do all we can to support you to access as much as you can online.  We appreciate this requires resources such as laptops which are expensive.  Nevertheless, we do not want this current situation to hold back the fantastic work you were doing in maximising your potential to access courses and resources.

On Monday 18^th January buzz Manchester Health & Wellbeing Service are launching #OurMCRCommunities on their Twitter page @buzzmanc, and they want you to get involved!

The Curve Library will be closed from Monday 11th January 2021 until further notice.

World Religion Day is held on the third Sunday of January each year.

We will be having a discussion about the similarities between the beliefs, faith and values that people have.

Please see details for GMMH Pharmacy Arrangements and Opening Hours, during Christmas and New Year here.

Local leaders and celebrities across Greater Manchester are taking their virtual Santa hats off to thank our key workers for going above and beyond in the pandemic.

We are currently completing the Equality Delivery System 2 grading exercise - a tool which helps NHS organisations make sure services are fair for all patients and communities.

buzz Manchester Health and Wellbeing's Library and Knowledge service has made the shortlist for a regional Service Development Award provided by the Library and Information Health Network North West!

The GMMH Crisis Cafe is a new out of hours friendly and supportive space open to anyone in a crisis.

The Resilience Hub model, which was originally developed to support those affected by the Manchester Arena bombing, is now being rolled out to provide mental health and wellbeing support to healthcare, social care and emergency service workers who have been affected by COVID-19 in multiple UK regions.The Resilience Hub model, which was originally developed to support those affected by the Manchester Arena bombing, is now being rolled out to provide mental health and wellbeing support to healthcare, social care and emergency service workers who have been affected by COVID-19 in multiple UK regions.

Achieve BBST have released their online support programme for the festive period. 

Achieve BBST are looking for people with lived experience of their services to support continuous service improvement, acting as a peer interviewer for approximately ten service users.