I have spent the last couple of days at the national NHS Confederation conference, which was held in Manchester.This is an annual event, bringing together clinical and managerial leads from health and social care organisations across the country to hear latest policy updates and local developments and to network with colleagues.I generally try to go to these every couple of years and in recent years, the mood has generally been a bit low.  However, I thought there was a notable difference t… Read More »

We have held a number of important events in the last few weeks which are helping to define our new ways of leading and engaging with you.We launched our first collective leadership forum on 1 May which brought together our 40 or so most senior clinical, professional and managerial leaders from across our corporate and operational teams.The aim of this forum is to bring people together to share information about our Trust and Greater Manchester as a whole in order to shape our future strategy an… Read More »

Tomorrow (12 May) is International Nurses’ Day.  We wanted to take this opportunity to recognise the enormous contribution of our nurses and personally share our gratitude.We are not forgetting other professionals; our allied health professionals, social care staff, doctors, dental colleagues, domestics, support staff and many others all play a vital and valuable role.However, this annual celebration of Florence Nightingale’s birthday is a prime opportunity to shine a spotlight on our nurse… Read More »