Health and social care projects
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Let's be clear - get it checked
The 
Let’s be clear – get it checked project aims to increase early detection and diagnosis of cancer in Salford, Manchester, and Tameside and Glossop. It will support volunteers to provide brief advice about the early signs and symptoms of breast, lung and bowel cancer in community settings and encourage people to visit their GP, if they have any symptoms.
The project is now recruiting volunteers to deliver brief advice to their communities and areas of most need. We are running a two day accredited training course to equip volunteers with the skills to deliver brief advice.
Remember. You don’t need to be an expert in cancer - we will provide the training you need.
If your interested please contact Oliver Barnes, Macmillan Community Project Officer- Tameside and Glossop, Tel: 0161 339 4985 Extension: 2006 or 0788 745 2556 Email: oliverbarnes@nhs.net
Getting our priorities right
During consultation with members during 2009/10, the HSC network has agreed a set of priority areas for work. These are:
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Long term conditions.
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Physical and sensory disability.
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Mental health and wellbeing.
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Access to health and care services.
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People who need social care and support.
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Access to easy to understand health information.
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Physical exercise.
Mental health and wellbeing
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Provided training with a leading Mental Health Promotion specialist to look at why promoting positive mental health is more important than ever, and give us the tools to embed this into our services.
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Worked with NHS Tameside and Glossop and Tameside Council to develop their
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Begun to develop a training package delivered by voluntary, community and faith sector providers to other groups on promoting positive mental health and wellbeing.
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Identified and shared information on mental health and wellbeing services so that groups have better access to information and support.
Directory of Mental Health Services - compiled by Tameside Council and Opt-in, Jan 2011 Mental health case studyCollaboration and promotion
As part of our work in promoting collaboration, and the voluntary, community and faith sector to potential partners and funders we are compiling a directory of services, if you haven’t already please fill in the profoma below and return it to anna.hynes@t3sc.org
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Delivering Real Improvements, Value and Efficiency (DRIVE)
This project aims to increase the capacity and capability of the sector to deliver public services. T3SC has been working with local authority commissioners and VCF groups to share experiences and best practice, explore processes and opportunities and open a dialogue between providers and commissioners through the DRIVE VCF Reference group.
Making Connections - between the voluntary, community and faith sector, Tameside Council and NHS Tameside and Glossop
This event was held in July and brought lead commissioners from the Local Authority and NHS Tameside and Glossop and voluntary, community and faith organisations delivering services together to look at the future commissioning intentions in Tameside. It provided an opportunity for groups to showcase their work and help them and commissioners to better understand how the sector can fit into the picture.
There was a mix of presentations from commissioners and groups, as well as a ‘what do you want to sell? What do you want to buy?’ session and a series of workshops looking at specific service areas.
We would like to thank all of those that attended, presented and facilitated the event and to the staff and volunteers at Hyde Central Methodist Church for their hospitality and great food.
Taking the Temperature of the third sector – roundtable discussion with Stephanie Butterworth (Executive Director of Community Services)
This was shared with the Chief Executive of Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council (TMBC) – Stephen Pleasant who asked T3SC to further investigate the experiences of these groups, as TMBC had highlighted at a strategic level the importance of the Voluntary, Community and Faith sector in meeting service delivery challenges in the current financial climate.
The culmination of this ‘fact finding’ was captured in
'Taking the Temperature - A Vision for Adult Social Care', which was presented to TMBC’s Executive Team in January of 2011. Some of the findings of this report did not mirror the understanding of the Local Authority, and particularly the Executive Director of Community Services (with responsibilities including Adult Social Care, and Health) – Stephanie Butterworth, who was keen to talk to the groups affected to reassure them of their place in Tameside’s future services market.
