GMMH launch Together Strategy and Research & Innovation Strategy
In June 2025, our CEO and Chair, Karen Howell and Tony Warne, introduced our strategy which sets out our vision and strategic priorities for the coming three years.
A key part of delivery will be the way we drive our implementation through more detailed enabling strategies and two more of those are being launched today: our Together Strategy and our Research & Innovation Strategy.
Together Strategy
As part of our ongoing work to develop enabling strategies to support the delivery of our Trust strategy, we have engaged with our service users, carers, colleagues and partner organisations regarding our approach to our Together Strategy. By ‘working together’ we don’t just mean working together as GMMH colleagues, we mean working together with service users, their families, carers, communities, and other organisations including the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise sector (VCFSE).
The updated Together Strategy runs from 2025–2030, building on progress from the first strategy (2022–2025). Our Goal is to create an organisation that listens, collaborates, and continually improves to meet changing needs.
Our Strategic Priorities remain unchanged:
- Meeting needs together
- Learning together
- Developing services together
- Working together
Research & Innovation (R&I) Strategy
We are leading the way in embedding research and innovation to deliver compassionate, evidence-based care that improves lives across Greater Manchester and nationally. This new enabling strategy turns research into real-world change, empowering staff, service users and communities to co-create inclusive solutions for mental health, dementia and addictions.
R&I is core business is at the heart of GMMH, driving better outcomes, reducing inequalities, and making us a great place for care and work.
As the UK's top 2025 mental health research trust on the Research Capability Funding annual performance, we are seeking to maintain our standing, we are strengthening partnerships with academia and industry to integrate digital tools and address health inequalities.
Our staff, service users, carers, and partners can get involved in R&I to shape the future of mental health. Together, we're building a research-active culture that inspires hope and drives excellence.
