Greater Manchester: reducing infant mortality and promoting child health

Targeting services in order to reduce health inequalities is a key national priority.This paper describes a project funded by the Greater Manchester Public Health Network looking at service provision to reduce infant mortality and promote child health across Greater Manchester. The aim of this was to improve standards of care by setting a standard service provision for targeting services toward the most deprived groups. It involved the production of child health indicators, a literature review, standard setting, dissemination of findings, collation of data and production of a service pathway for breastfeeding, smoking cessation, nutrition and postnatal depression.