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Oldham residents can now tap into a single front door for health, council and voluntary help after the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership quietly switched on its borough-level website.

The page pools NHS out-of-hours contacts, online symptom checkers and healthy-living guides that used to sit on half-a-dozen different sites. Fire, police, councils and charities across all ten boroughs feed information into the same system so families no longer need to repeat their story to every agency.

Behind the scenes, GPs and hospital teams are already sharing notes with district nurses and social workers. The partnership says the aim is to spot problems earlier, whether that is a child's worsening asthma or an older person's first signs of isolation, and to arrange support before a crisis hits A&E.

No new money was announced, and the site itself is deliberately low-key. Officials admit the real test will be whether residents notice quicker appointments, fewer hand-offs between departments, and whether voluntary groups see a drop in people who have been bounced around the system.

For now, the change is invisible: same clinics, same phone numbers, same waiting lists. The difference is meant to be felt in the gaps that should no longer appear between services, although patients will judge whether that promise turns into shorter waits and less paperwork.