Terms of use

Oldham residents who visit the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership's website at gmintegratedcare.org.uk are now bound by fresh legal terms that can be altered without warning. The small-print update, posted quietly on 23 February, means anyone who clicks 'accept' may later find the rules have shifted underneath them.

The Partnership keeps tight hold of its words and pictures. Unless it says otherwise, everything on the site stays its property, and locals may copy or share it only for personal, non-commercial use such as a Facebook post. Any other reuse needs written permission first.

If you leave a comment on a news story, you must give a working email address and promise that every factual claim is true. Children under 16 need a parent's okay, and moans about specific clinics or staff will be deleted on sight. Moderators can edit, remove or hide posts, and repeat offenders can be locked out altogether.

The site links out to partners such local NHS trusts, but the Partnership stresses it does not vet or endorse those pages. It also disclaims responsibility for any loss or hassle caused if the information turns out to be wrong, even after what it calls 'all reasonable care'.

Because the terms can change at any moment, the advice to users is blunt: keep checking back. For now, the safest route for Oldham people with a complaint about care is still to use the official NHS or council channels rather than the comment box.