We had a fantastic time at our Festival of Ideas in Manchester on Friday, which looked at Better Mental Health.   Many thanks to all those who attended for making it such an enjoyable and productive day.
Here is Richard Jones, Chair of the North West JIP, our partner at the event along with the Mental Health [...]

Move over V, Reading and Glastonbury. We are getting ready for our first Festival of Ideas of the autumn, focused on better mental health. If the mark of a good party is that you simultaneously worry too many and too few people will come, I’d say we’re right on track. And it seems that Raj [...]

Our very own Raj Cheema made a stunning radio debut yesterday on Halton Community Radio publicising our upcoming Festival of Ideas on Better Mental Health (to be held in Manchester on 4 September with the North-West Joint Improvement Partnership). In her interview with Matthew Roberts about the Exchange’s work, Raj issued a rousing call to action [...]

Ahead of our Festival of Ideas in September, our call for ideas has gone live.  We are looking for high-potential third sector innovations that help to personalise mental health support.  The best will receieve an invitation to our Festival of Ideas in Manchester on 4th September.
The event will bring together leading innovators, commissioners and investors [...]

[ September 4, 2009; 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] We are running a Festival of Ideas in September in partnership with the North-West’s Joint Improvement Partnership, a regional agency that is supporting the transformation of health and social care.

Personalisation in mental health services is really difficult but it’s really important.  Across the North West, people in the public and third sectors are applying their [...]