What Safer Healthcare Means for the Communities You Serve

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.

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.

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.

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.

Find out more about the NIHR Greater Manchester PSRC

Agenda

12:00 - 12:30 pm | Arrival and networking time over lunch (provided by us)

12:30 - 1:15 pm | Defining Patient Safety and the work of the NIHR GM PSRC

1 – 3 pm | Roundtable discussions: Working together for a more equitable healthcare system

We look forward to welcoming you and working together to make a real difference for a more equitable healthcare system.

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