Stockport is a metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester (GM) and one of the ten localities/places within NHS GM ICB. Once named the 12th worst place to live in the UK, Stockport is now one of the best (The Sunday Times). With strong partnerships, community leadership and mature local authority cross-party working are delivering big changes to our town, the health and wellbeing of our residents and pride in our local area including creating thriving neighbourhoods. 

In GM, neighbourhood health sits as a key part of a wider neighbourhood and prevention model – GM ‘Live Well’. Through Live Well communities will benefit from better health, improved economic activity, better employment, housing, early years support, and have a greater involvement in changes to their neighbourhoods and services. 

We are home to an estimated 299,545 residents (ONS estimate for 2023). We are the eighth most polarised borough in the country and have a population that is ageing faster than anywhere else in Greater Manchester. This ageing population continues to grow, creating specific health and social care needs with significant cost and demand pressures to the system. 

In Stockport our focus in the programme is to transform our services and support for our frail population, including those with Dementia, and for people at the end of their life. This will look at the full span of intervention from preventative work to tackle social isolation and identify early signs of frailty, to proactive work for those at risk both living at home and in care homes, to urgent care when people experience an escalation in need (such as falls).