NHS to buy thousands of extra beds in care homes and other settings to...

Thousands of extra medically fit patients will be discharged from hospitals into community care settings, such as care homes, over the coming weeks to...

Patients encourage public to get flu jabs as hospital cases soar

NHS patients from around England have joined health chiefs in pleading with the public to get their flu vaccines after being hospitalised with the...

Sunak-NHS is under pressure but my top priority is to fix it

Rishi Sunak has admitted that the health service is “under pressure” but that he has a “renewed sense of optimism” that the government will...

mRNA cancer vaccines trial to launch in UK

Trials into vaccines for cancer and wider diseases will accelerate after the government reached a historic agreement with a leading biopharmaceutical firm to bring...

North Manchester General Hospital joins UK RIO study: long-acting immune-based treatment for HIV

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) has just enrolled the first participants in a new HIV study using long-acting immune-based therapy. The RIO clinical trial...

New hospital service aims to make smoking history in Bolton

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest NHS Trust in Greater Manchester to join ‘The CURE Project’ and launch a new tobacco dependency...

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...