NHS urges parents to book children in for essential MMR vaccination
Parents and carers of children are being reminded of the importance of routine vaccinations, with hundreds of thousands of texts, emails and letters being...
It’s great outdoors – Green spaces clear minds and pave way for research
People using mental health services in Bury and Rochdale have been utilising their areas’ natural green spaces to improve their mental and physical health.
Pennine...
New agreement on detection and diagnosis of health conditions across Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester’s capacity to detect and diagnose cancers – and other health conditions which disproportionally affect the city region’s population – has been accelerated...
Government pledges that people will have to wait no more than two weeks to...
A new drive to improve access to general practice appointments will be the centrepiece of a new Our Plan for Patients that will be...
What makes you tic?
A first-of-its-kind support group for young people with Tourette’s has been set up in Tameside.
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust’s Tameside and Glossop child and...
‘Record numbers’ recruited to national research library thanks to pioneering approach driven by Greater...
A pioneering method of delivering research – popularised during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic – is being leveraged for the benefit of Greater...
Guidelines on breast cancer surgery need revision, find Manchester researchers
Current international breast cancer surgery guidelines need urgent revision, according to a meta-analysis of 68 studies comprising 112,140 patients by University of Manchester researchers.
The...
Greater Manchester volunteers return to help NHS trial new cancer screening test
Hundreds of volunteers from across Greater Manchester – including Oldham, Salford, Manchester, Trafford, Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale, Wigan, Bury, Bolton, Stockport, Tameside and Glossop...
Risk of blood clots remains for almost a year after COVID-19 infection, study suggests
COVID-19 infection increases the risk of potentially life-threatening blood clots for at least 49 weeks, according to a new study of health records of...
Manchester researchers discover new drug therapy for young children with severe eczema
A biologic therapy for very young children with a moderate to severe form of a eczema has been shown to be safe and effective...