What if safer and more equitable healthcare was shaped by the communities you work with every day?

We are inviting leaders from Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) organisations across Greater Manchester to join a facilitated forum focused on listening, learning and working differently together for improving patient safety and reducing health inequalities.

Date: Tuesday, 31 March
Time: 12-2:30pm
Where: Luther King House, Manchester, M14 5JP
Cost: Free to attend, with lunch and refreshments served

VCFSE organisations play a critical role in supporting people who are most at risk of experiencing unsafe or unequal healthcare. You see the gaps, the barriers, and the unintended harm – often long before it shows up in data or policy.

This forum brings together community leaders from across Greater Manchester with the team from the NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration (GM PSRC) to explore how we can work differently and more effectively together to create real-world impact.

The focus of the session is twofold:

• To understand how VCFSE organisations and NIHR GM PSRC can work together in ways that are genuinely useful, respectful and impactful for communities

• To collaboratively map practical routes to impact – from community insight to action, influence and change

This is not a presentation-heavy event. It is a facilitated, interactive space designed for open conversation, shared learning and joint problem-solving.

Together, we will explore:

• What safer healthcare looks like from a community perspective

• Where collaboration could make the biggest difference

• What needs to change to ensure community knowledge leads to meaningful impact, not just consultation

Your experience, relationships and insight are essential to shaping work that leads to safer care across Greater Manchester.

Who should attend

Leaders and senior representatives from voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations working with communities across Greater Manchester. This includes community groups, charities and grassroots networks.

Why attend

To influence how patient safety work is shaped locally, connect with peers in Greater Manchester, and help define routes to impact that reflect the realities of the communities you serve.

What insight from your work could shape safer care for your communities?
Your experience matter – please join the conversation!

Spaces are limited to ensure a collaborative environment, so we encourage early registration.

About the NIHR GM PSRC

The NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration (GM PSRC) aims to improve patient safety across health and social care and reduce health inequalities in England. We do this by carrying out innovative research in partnership with patients, staff, organisations, charities and those in contact with health and social care, ensuring that their lived experiences are at the very core of our work. Each community has different experiences and needs when it comes to health and social care, which is why we are actively engaging with patients, carers and communities to help shape our research from the very beginning.

Our NIHR-funded collaboration is a partnership between:

• Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
• University of Manchester
• University of Nottingham
• University of Leicester

Our collaboration works closely with charities, industry and other research organisations across Greater Manchester and the East Midlands. This allows us to deliver research that makes a real difference to health and social care. It also means the improvements and interventions can be rolled out across health and social care as soon as possible. 

Find out more about our four linked research themes:

• Developing Safer Health and Care Systems: Health and care systems are the way health services are provided. The developing safer health and care systems theme is focused on looking at how services are delivered to identify ways to make them safer.
• Enhancing Cultures of Safety: A positive safety culture in health and care contexts is an environment where individual staff members, teams, patients, service users, and carers work together to ensure that safe care can be delivered. This theme aims to identify how to develop positive cultures across health and care settings to improve patient safety.
• Improving medication safety: Medicines are one of the most used clinical interventions, but errors can lead to harm being caused to individuals. Our studies focus on the medication-related safety problems that are most important, based on epidemiological evidence.
• Preventing suicide and self-harm: More than 6,000 people die by suicide in the UK annually. The risk of someone subsequently dying by suicide is greatly increased following a self-harm episode. Our research looks at how we can make sure interventions are fit for purpose for everyone, to ensure no group is left behind.

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