Stay home if you are ill and wear a mask
People with illneses are being urged to stay at home to stop the spread, and if they can’t isolate, to wear a face mask...
One in six resort to the DIY doctor after failing to secure face-to-face GP...
Of people who failed to get a face-to-face GP appointment in the past year, a staggering one in six resorted to being a “DIY...
BMA demands Government takes immediate action to alleviate NHS pressures
Responding to comments from the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine today, that about 500 people could be dying each week due...
From constantly feeling like her life could end to being given a ‘pair of...
A Manchester women whose Sickle Cell condition was so painful she once thought it might end her life – has told of a new...
Government to bring in COVID tests for passengers from China from next week
The government has announced a series of precautionary and temporary measures to further improve the UK’s ability to detect potential new variants of Covid...
Clinical trial clears Manchester man’s terminal cancer
A man from Greater Manchester, who had less than 12 months to live is now clear of cancer, and back at work, thanks to...
Flu pressure rises with hospital cases up seven fold in a month
Pressure from flu on the NHS continues to grow with cases in hospital now more than seven times higher than last month, the latest...
Hospitals across the region facing unprecedented demand as they issue urgent plea
Hospitals across the region have sent out an urgent plea for people to go to A&E departments if they have "a life-threatening emergency".
Yesterday...
Government to keep under review imposing COVID checks on Chinese visitors
In an about turn the Government has said that it will keep under review COVID restrictions on visitors from China
Ben Wallace, the Defence Secretary,...
Government falling a decade behind in smokeless target
The UK government is almost a decade behind achieving its target for England to be smokefree by 2030, a new report published by Cancer...