Tools & Resources

Cancer Awareness Champions Promoting Cancer Awareness and Early Diagnosis

Wigan Council’s Cancer Champion programme initially started as part of The ‘Be Clear on Cancer’ Campaign instigated and initially led by Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cancer Network (GMCCN), in partnership with local Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), following the network successfully securing National Awareness and Early Diagnosis Initiative (NAEDI) funding to promote cancer awareness and early diagnosis.The programme ran across eleven PCTs across Greater Manchester and Cheshire commencing in May 2011.

“Specfit” - A Programme Supporting Local Sports Clubs to Deliver Public Health Initiatives

Wigan Borough Sports Council, in partnership with the public health team at Wigan Council, secured funding to support local sports clubs in building capacity and capability to deliver public health initiatives.This funding was used to establish the Specfit programme for sports clubs in September 2013, which aims to improve the long-term health and social wellbeing of spectators, family members, staff, visitors and the local community, by tapping into the unique opportunity that sports clubs have to extend activity and awareness.Under this programme, sports clubs must identify a lead to act

Get the World Moving - Global Corporate Challenge to Improve Employee Health and Productivity

The Global Corporate Challenge (GCC) is a programme developed over a decade ago by Gettheworldmoving to improve the health and productivity of employees around the world.In that time the programme has transformed the cultures of thousands of the world’s leading organisations, including many NHS trusts, and has changed the lives of over a million employees across 158 countries.GCC optimises organisations’ most valuable/expensive asset - their human capital - and ensures that employees arrive each day in the right physical and mental shape so that they are fully engaged.

Innovative Placement Allocation Model for Pre-Registration Student Nurses

Due to the reconfiguration of healthcare organisations and the services that they provide, practice placement opportunities for pre-registration student nurses are changing and it is becoming increasingly difficult to provide the variety of placement opportunities required to prepare students for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

Successful Monitoring of Junior Doctors’ Hours at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

It is a contractual obligation for individual trusts to monitor junior doctors’ hours every six months, to make certain that they are compliant with the Junior Doctor Contract (known as New Deal), and that doctors’ pay is correct, yet this process is carried out with variable success across the North West. Therefore Health Education England’s Junior Doctor Advisory Team (JDAT) reviewed a selection of monitoring exercises across the North West, all of which had taken place in the last five years.

Graduate Management Flexi-Placement: Achieving Staff Engagement at United Utilities

The NHS North West HR Graduate Training Scheme gives its trainees the opportunity to spend two months working on flexi-placements in organisations that are external to the NHS. Such placements are a great opportunity for trainees to gain experience and share good practice. This develops their skills and confidence, whilst also benefitting the NHS through the knowledge they gain.

Graduate Management Flexi-Placement: Career Development Strategy within the Institution of Civil Engineers

The NHS North West HR Graduate Training Scheme gives its trainees the opportunity to spend two months working on flexi-placements in organisations that are external to the NHS. Such placements are a great opportunity for trainees to gain experience and share good practice. This develops their skills and confidence, whilst also benefitting the NHS through the knowledge they gain.

Improving Staff and Volunteer Engagement at Age UK Cheshire East

The NHS North West HR Graduate Training Scheme gives its trainees the opportunity to spend two months working on flexi-placements in organisations that are external to the NHS. Such placements are a great opportunity for trainees to gain experience and share good practice. This develops their skills and confidence, whilst also benefiting the NHS through the knowledge they gain.

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