Labour set out 6 key areas to address Covid-19 crisis in social care
Following the news this morning that deaths in care homes from Covid-19 have exceeded 4,000, the Labour Party has written to the Health Secretary...
British Heart Foundation reveals calls to helpline rise after changes to lockdown rules
The number of people calling the British Heart Foundation (BHF)’s helpline has doubled on average since the outbreak of coronavirus (Covid-19), with a spike...
Manchester patient the first in the UK to receive convalescent plasma through dedicated COVID-19...
A patient at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital (RMCH), the largest children’s hospital in the UK, was the first in the UK to receive...
Government invests £18.6m in North West infection research
The University of Liverpool is part of a major new consortium project to boost productivity and generate jobs in the local region, through the...
44% rise in patients waiting for tests to diagnose bowel, stomach, bladder and oesophageal...
55,500 more people are waiting to get tests used to diagnose four common cancers compared to last year, according to Cancer Research UK analysis,*...
The death rate for patients who experienced what is normally a lower-risk heart attack...
The death rate for patients who experienced what is normally a lower-risk heart attack rose sharply during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according...
Covid-19 impact hits prostate cancer referrals by over 50% for men in Manchester
Urgent referrals for urological cancers have dropped by 52.1% in Manchester compared to the same period last year as the Covid-19 pandemic made it...
Older people in care homes abandoned to die amid Government failures during coronavirus pandemic
A series of “shockingly irresponsible” Government decisions put tens of thousands of older people’s lives at risk and led to multiple violations of care...
Boots to launch in store Covid test
A new Covid test service will launch in selected Boots stores this week including in Manchesterbefore rolling out to 50 Boots stores throughout November
The...
Oxford Vaccine shows strong immune response in older people as cases rise 11% in...
The Coronavirus vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca Plc AZN.L and Oxford University produced a strong immune response in older adults.
Results punished this morning in the...