The Greater Manchester region is home to 2.822 million people across 10 local authorities. According to the 2019 Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), Greater Manchester ranks 6 of out of 326 local authorities in England.
The locality of Greater Manchester is most deprived with the area of Trafford the least deprived.
Our population is very diverse with 14.1% of patients over the age of 65, 4% of patients state their sexual orientation as being either Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual or Other and 4.5% of the population are from black and minority ethnic (BME) groups. *
Our networks are fully committed to improve the overall health of our diverse population by designing a system that:
- Meets the need for early diagnostics,
- Reduces patient wait times,
- Advances equality, diversity, and inclusion, and
- Provides better access to diagnostic services for the most deprived areas of Greater Manchester
*GP patient survey for England