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Category: Health

Coffee4Craig working with MCC to help homeless over severe weather period.

Coffee4Craig joined forces with Manchester City Council and Riverside, who provided homeless services in the city to help get Manchester’s most vulnerable off the...

MP champions Salfordians affected by contaminated blood

Barbara Keeley, MP for Worsley and Eccles South, is urging people affected by contaminated blood treatment by the NHS to have their say on Government proposals on the...

Unite for World Cancer Day

People across Greater Manchester are being encouraged to show their support for everyone affected by cancer ahead of World Cancer Day on February 4, 2016. For the first...

CQC blasts ‘Inadequate’ Little Hulton care home, puts Kenyon Lodge into special measures

A Little Hulton care home has been put into special measures after a surprise inspection by the Care Quality Commission. Health inspectors found multiple breaches of the...

Rebecca Long-Bailey MP speaks out on fuel poverty as winter bites in

Commenting on the soaring rise of winter deaths, MP for Salford and Eccles and Shadow Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury Rebecca Long Bailey said: “The average number...

Worsley strikes it lucky with £17m St Ann’s Hospice lottery

Players of a local charity lottery have raised more than £17 million over the past 21 years to help local people with life-limiting illnesses. The St Ann’s Hospice...

Salford star Christopher Eccleston launches Alzheimer’s campaign with Wallace and Gromit creators

Local actor Christopher Eccleston has teamed up with Aardman Amination Studios to produce a film to ‘fight misconceptions’ about dementia. The 51-year-old,...

It’s not too late to protect yourself from flu say Salford GPs

Salford GPs are urging those most at risk of flu to get their free vaccination after evidence suggests that flu activity is increasing in Greater Manchester. Dr Hamish...

New Year inspiration as Strength and Conditioning Zone comes to Eccles

Eccles Leisure Centre will launch a new state of the art Strength and Conditioning Zone on Saturday 9th January, with a free session giving those looking to take their...

Plea from health chiefs to avoid Salford Royal’s A&E

Health chiefs are appealing for people to only use Salford Royal’s A&E for serious or life threatening conditions to help ease pressure on the department this...