The Greater Manchester Cancer Podcast

In the first episode of a new series dedicated to exploring the health inequalities that exist in the cancer system in Greater Manchester, host Steve Bland chats to:

Professor Matt Evison - Associate Director at the GM Cancer Alliance 
Dr Alison Pye - Consultant in Public Health
Farida Anderson - patient rep on the health inequalities board 

Steve and guests explore questions like what are health inequalities? What impact do health inequalities have on cancer? And what sort of issues do people affected by different types of health inequality have at different points in the pathway? 

We also talk about the plans and strategies to combat these challenges including, Core20plus5, the GM ICP strategy and finally the Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance strategy and ask 'how do they all fit together?'

We’d love to hear from you – what are your views on the topics discussed today? Please visit www.gmcancer.org.uk/podcast and send us a message or check out GM Cancer on social media.

Links from this episode:

NHS Long Term Plan - NHS Long Term Plan

Core 20 Plus 5 NHS England » Core20PLUS5 – An approach to reducing health inequalities for children and young people

Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership Strategy - Improving health and care in Greater Manchester | Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership (gmintegratedcare.org.uk) 

Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership Joint Forward Plan Joint Forward Plan | Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership (gmintegratedcare.org.uk)

Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership Fairer Health for All Framework - Fairer Health for All | Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership (gmintegratedcare.org.uk)

10GM: Home (10gm.org.uk)

What is The Greater Manchester Cancer Podcast?

Across cancer services in Greater Manchester, amazing work is happening every day. Frontline staff, managers, clinical leaders and people affected by cancer work together with the simple focus of making sure that every person throughout Greater Manchester is able to access a world class cancer service.

This podcast is all about sharing some of the work going on with the wider Greater Manchester Cancer workforce – that’s thousands of people across all areas of Greater Manchester, working in many different roles - and giving some of the fantastic people who do that work the opportunity to share their experiences with everyone.

In each episode, presenter Steve Bland (from the BBC podcast You, Me and the Big C) will focus on a different topic and talk to some amazing guests so if there's anyone you'd like to hear from or a topic you want to see covered, please get in touch.

For more information about GM Cancer visit www.gmcancer.org.uk.