Patients on NHS waiting lists to be given opportinity to travel to speed...

Hundreds of thousands of NHS patients who have been waiting the longest for treatment will be offered the opportunity to travel to a different...

Care home network aims to reduce infections

A new pilot scheme to monitor infections in care homes across England has been launched The VIVALDI Social Care project, commissioned by the UK Health...

New £105.9m mental health unit is the first in the country to be all-electric

North View, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH)’s new state-of-the-art mental health unit currently under construction in North Manchester, will be the...

Ask Your Pharmacist Week: Top 10 Ways To Make The Most Of Your Local...

Everyone has been to a pharmacy at some point in their life – usually to get an emergency packet of paracetamol or cold and...

Manchester surgeon opens £1M charity hospital in memory of late father who died from...

Manchester-based surgical director Dr Matee Rajput has announced the opening of the Samr Trust Hospital in memory of his late father who sadly passed...

Bury Care Home with closed “toxic culture” deemed inadequate and placed in Special measures

A Bury care home had been slammed as inadequate in a report by the Care Quality Commission this week and placed in special measures Inspectors...

The Christie music room – a unique space where melodies become medicine

The Christie Charity has relaunched and refurbished The Christie music room, a space within the bespoke Teenage and Young Adult (TYA) unit at The...

Postcode lottery in urgent and emergency NHS care highlighted by MP’s in report

How quickly an ambulance will arrive depends too much on where a patient lives. In a report published today, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC)...

Early signs of bipolar identified through new Manchester research

New early signs of bipolar have been identified, thanks to the latest research by University of Manchester and Keele University. The UK’s only national charity...

David stubs his smoking habit

A Tameside man who successfully quit his 30-year smoking habit is encouraging others to do the same this Stoptober. David Hall, 44, from Dukinfield, had...