The function of the North East of Greater Manchester Patients' Council is to provide informal feedback to; the Healthy Futures Team, the four area PCTs (Bury PCT, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT, Manchester PCT, Oldham PCT) and Pennine Acute Hospital Trust on any issues/concerns brought to the attention of the Patients' Council which relate to the Healthy Futures and Making It Better Programmes.

In order to provide feedback to the relevant organisations members:

• Attend local group meetings to gather patient views and concerns as and when required. 

•  Participate on decision-making meetings with such committees as requested. 

• Attend public meetings to ensure that such public meetings are made aware of the Patients’ Council and its role, and to report to the full Council any information from these meetings.  

• Represent the Patients' Council on health care and transport work-streams and working groups.  

• Aim to build a patient led NHS. 

• Provide patient representation on the five Healthy Futures work-streams which have 44 sub-groups which also require patient representation. See Work-streams section for more details.  

• Provide patient representation on the Healthy Futures Transport Action Group.  

• Support PPI Leads in attending public events, road-shows, sheltered accommodations, community groups, etc to keep the public up to date on the Implementation stages of the Healthy Futures and Making It Better Programmes.