Living Well

Innovation Unit has been working in partnership with the ICB, Trusts, local authorities and the VCSE sector across Greater Manchester to radically improve mental health support. Together, we have been adopting the Living Well model and adapting it to nine localities across Greater Manchester. The model recognises that non-clinical factors can be significant causes of mental ill health, including poverty, poor housing, or struggling to access benefits.

Each of Greater Manchester’s ten localities has made progress by collaborating across sectors and organisations to define their vision for the mental health system of the future; and they have begun translating that vision into a design for local models. These models have emerged from people’s lived experience of navigating mental health support systems, as well as the lessons learnt by Salford and Tameside & Glossop (two localities who participated in the National Lottery funded Living Well UK programme starting in 2018).