
Focused Care
@focusedcaregm
Making the invisible, visible. Developed and delivered in primary care. Supporting the most complex and vulnerable to access healthcare. #inclusionhealth
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Focused Care has been reducing health inequalities and providing compassionate care to 3,783 households in Greater Manchester. Making the invisible, visible. Andy Burnham Greater Manchester Combined Authority Bola Owolabi Manisha Kumar Tracey Vell MBE Warren Heppolette


Making every contact count...... every single 127,000 of them made by Focused Care across Greater Manchester. Andy Burnham Greater Manchester Combined Authority Bola Owolabi Manisha Kumar Tracey Vell MBE Warren Heppolette #healthinclusion #healthinequality


Systems are often not flexible to patients needs which can mean they lose out on entitled benefits and support. Read below our Good News Story with Harry Mark Fisher Cordelle Ofori Jane Pilkington Claire Lake Mike Barker Helen Bretten Joanna Midgley DeepEndGM


Our patients need time, compassionate care and unrelenting kindness for breakthroughs to happen. 50% of our patients are open with us for 3-12 months Mark Fisher Cordelle Ofori Jane Pilkington Claire Lake Mike Barker Helen Bretten Joanna Midgley DeepEndGM #healthinclusion

Often we see more breakthroughs in patients' lives the longer we work with them. The below data shows the increase of interactions we have with patients over a longer period of time. Mark Fisher Cordelle Ofori Jane Pilkington Claire Lake Mike Barker Helen Bretten Joanna Midgley

How many services does Focused Care work with? This many! Claire Lake Mike Barker Helen Bretten Joanna Midgley DeepEndGM


Patients were asked how likely they are to recommend Focused Care to friends and family and an incredible 95% agreed extremely likely. @MarkFisherNHSb Cordelle Ofori Jane Pilkington DeepEndGM

Focused Care works with many patients like Joan and it can take a long time to unpick the problems behind the problems. With time, trust and unrelenting kindness, Focused Care helps bring people to a point of stability. DeepEndGM Mark Fisher Cordelle Ofori Greater Manchester Combined Authority


Focused Care attends and engages with many groups and meetings across GM . Our impact is felt far and wide across the sector all to bring calm to the complexity for our patients. Jane Pilkington Claire Lake Mike Barker Helen Bretten #healthinclusion #healthinequality


Focused Care delivers compassionate healthcare in areas of deprivation in 63 practices across GM and also have teams in Brighton and Dublin! Cordelle Ofori Jane Pilkington Claire Lake Mike Barker Helen Bretten Joanna Midgley DeepEndGM #healthinclusion #healthinequality



Why is Focused Care needed? There is less funding and poorer health outcomes in areas of deprivation. Focused Care works specifically in communities that need it the most with the goal of improving health outcomes. Mike Barker Helen Bretten #healthinclusion #healthinequality

