NHS awards townships with health grants

NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale is to provide £100,000 funding between the four townships to kick start health initiatives.

The Trust has agreed to provide the funds every year for the next three years. Projects supported by the funding will target key health inequalities including smoking, obesity, mental and emotional wellbeing and heart disease, covering blood pressure and cholesterol.

Rachel Snow-Miller, head of partnerships at NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale, commented: “This funding is a step towards establishing a health and wellbeing partnership with every township. Townships are very much at the heart of local issues so by working more closely with them, we will be able to tap into local communities at grass routes level and address the key health issues affecting each area.”

Townships will decide how the money is spent and are currently planning what projects this may include.