Families who are looking for a new home often want to get the right mix of a good location near to reputable schools and a generous living space, all within a reasonable budget.
09.03.2023 - 23:17 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Hospitals in Greater Manchester are bracing for huge walkouts next week which will see 'many routine appointments and procedures postponed'.
All hospitals in the region and some GP practices will be affected by the junior doctors strikes planned from 7am on Monday, March 12 to 7am on Thursday, March 16, Greater Manchester's NHS bosses have confirmed. The industrial action will consume the two days, lasting 72 hours in total.
"As a result, many routine appointments and procedures will be postponed, to help us focus on keeping our sickest patients safe," warned the Royal Bolton Hospital in a tweet on Wednesday (March 8). Nearly 37,000 voted to strike in the recent ballot, coming after historic industrial action from nurses and ambulance workers.
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The junior doctors are asking for a pay increase to make up for 15 years of inflation, along with better working conditions which they say is driving people to leave the NHS, leading to dangerous short staffing. The term "junior doctors" covers everyone who has just graduated from medical school through to those with many years' experience on the front line. Overall, they account for more than 40 per cent of the medical workforce.
The NHS in Greater Manchester is urging people to keep attending their appointments as planned - unless they are contacted to rearrange as the Bolton hospital warned that 'many appointments will be postponed'. Consultant cover will be in place to 'maintain safe patient care during this time, along with the normal number of nurses and allied health professionals', according to NHS bosses.
Dr Francis Andrews, consultant
Families who are looking for a new home often want to get the right mix of a good location near to reputable schools and a generous living space, all within a reasonable budget.
A Greater Manchester children's arts and crafts maker owed almost £4m when it collapsed into administration and 30 people were made redundant, it has been revealed.
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Schools and colleges across the country are set to receive a share of £2.5 billion to upgrade their buildings, and create extra pupil places, the Government has announced.
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A local historian is writing to the Pope to protest over an ‘abandoned’ Roman Catholic graveyard which he says has become a ‘drugs den’. The overgrown cemetery - known as Barton Upon Irwell Roman Catholic Graveyard - in the Peel Green area of Eccles has not been used for a burial since 1940.
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