Manchester Settlement always has the communities that are recognised to be challenged by health inequalities and health inequity at the heart of all their projects. Working with various ethnic/faith groups in different localities, we share our experience and learning with other Primary Care Network Neighbourhood Leads and communities!

We continue to be at the forefront of delivering outcomes for communities through our belief in the power of people, community and place. We deliver these outcomes through our commissioned projects, ensuring that communities engaged (including the voluntary sector) are recognised for their strengths, as well as understanding their needs and challenges, whether they be physical, emotional and/or financial.

It is the values that are important to everyone at Manchester Settlement, that underpin the way we deliver and work with our communities. Through listening and responding, being brave and truth-telling, recognising individual’s strengths, by sharing power and valuing our communities through the give-get relationship (reciprocity); we enable individuals to take control of their health.

It is recognised that this way of working is ‘health creating’ and we are on a journey to embed this approach in everything we do, using the Health Creation Framework.

The Health Creation Framework has been developed by The Health Creation Alliance (THCA), a non-profit CIC which has a mission to increase the number of years people live in good health in every community, with an ambition to ensure that Health Creation sits alongside treating ill health and prevention of illness, and that it becomes business as usual across the NHS system; and health creation is a PROCESS.

The Framework entails the 3C's and 6 features which enable the process of community empowerment to occur and therefore, the hope is that communities gain a sense of purpose, hope, mastery and control over their own lives and immediate environment; when this happens their health and wellbeing is enhanced.

It is through using the 3C's (connecting with each other to develop confidence that enables us to take control) and the 6 features that we are truely empowering our communities and various examples of this have been identified via our Winter Health Vaccination Programme!

Quote “The Health Creation Framework made us redesign our project so that it was not just about healthy eating and dieting. We answered the questions that the community was asking about the misconceptions about diabetes. The Framework allowed us to empower the community to take information home and to take the community along with us”- Nisi, Project Lead - Across Ummah

To find out more about The Health Creation Alliance and the work that they do, please click on the link below:-

We are working closely with THCA as partners and have completed our first Health Creation project!: Winter Health Vaccination Programme - listen to what Neil McGregor Paterson (Director of Communications, THCA) has to say at our celebration event......

READ MORE...Find out more about the Winter Health Vaccination Project - click on link below!