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A baby would likely have survived if medics had told her mother to go into hospital in the hours before she was born, an inquest has heard.

One of the region’s largest hospital trusts, employing more than 20,000 people, has launched a major redundancy scheme and frozen recruitment in a bid to cut costs.

A senior NHS surgeon in Greater Manchester has been struck off for claiming the Covid pandemic was a 'worldwide conspiracy' and publicly criticising lockdowns and vaccines.

Bosses at two Greater Manchester hospitals with dangerous crumbling concrete have assured that 'patient and staff safety is paramount'. Both Salford Royal and Royal Oldham hospitals have been confirmed to contain reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete - RAAC - in their roofing.

Alarmed patients spotted medics wearing Hazmat suits outside Royal Oldham Hospital - but officials have assured them it's a training exercise, not a chemical incident.

A patient treated by a doctor who went on to kill a patient months later said he complained to hospital bosses after ending up 'covered in blood' while undergoing the same procedure. Anthony Johnson, 54, was attended to by Dr Isyaka Mamman at the Royal Oldham hospital, after being told he needed a bone marrow biopsy.

An elderly hospital doctor has been jailed for three years after he killed a patient during a 'routine' procedure, as a judge slammed 'failings in the system'. Shahida Parveen died aged 48 at the Royal Oldham hospital after Dr Isyaka Mamman carried out a bone marrow biopsy.

A hospital has issued an urgent warning asking people only to visit A+E in an emergency as they are "overflowing" with patients. Bosses at the Royal Bolton Hospital say there are currently four times more people in their accident and emergency department than they have space for.

MPs in Oldham have written to health chiefs raising concerns that it took five days to notify them about a major IT failure that led to a ‘critical incident’ being declared at four hospitals.

IT experts are being 'brought in from abroad' to solve more than a week of chaos at four of Greater Manchester's biggest hospitals hamstrung by technical glitches, according to staff on the ground. The help is being flown in from the US, the Manchester Evening News understands.

Doctors and nurses across four of the region’s major hospitals say they are ‘losing patients in hospitals’ as a huge IT failure tips over into more than a week of chaos. ‘Waiting times are rising’, staff are doing ‘longer shifts’, and staff are ‘unable to track their patients as they move through the hospitals’ because the electronic systems continue to crash.

Staff across four of Greater Manchester's hospitals say they are struggling to 'access their patients' medical records, electronically prescribe medications and reliably see test results'. The concerns come as four hospitals have been hit by major IT failures lasting nearly a week, after problems began on Wednesday, May 18.

An inquest into the death of a teenager in a mental health unit will examine if there were any ‘missed opportunities’ in her care and treatment. Grace Victoria Heald, 19, of Blackley, died in the Rivington Unit at at Royal Bolton Hospital on August 22 last year.

Hospital bosses are warning the public to avoid the Royal Oldham Hospital's emergency department unless urgent and life-threatening. The hospital has today declared a critical incident after almost a week of IT failures across four Greater Manchester hospitals which have caused 'severe delays' to patient care, according to staff.

A major IT system issue is causing ‘severe delays for patients’ at four hospitals in Greater Manchester, the Manchester Evening News understands. The problems could persist into the weekend before a fix is found, according to sources.

A hospital trust in Greater Manchester has warned patients their accident and emergency departments are 'very busy' - with people being told to expect long waiting times.

A hospital's 101 calls to police to report a depressed man had gone missing went unanswered for hours, an inquest has heard.

More than one in every 100 babies delivered last month at a major NHS trust which runs health care services across Greater Manchester were stillbirths.

Hundreds of staff employed by a major NHS group in Greater Manchester are off work every day due to sickness – but Covid-related absences are falling.

Two more people have died in Greater Manchester's hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus.

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direct to your inboxNine more people have died in Greater Manchester's hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus.The latest NHS figures bring the region's hospital death toll to 5,717.Three more deaths were recorded by Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.The trust's figures include those of North Manchester General, the Royal Oldham, Rochdale Infirmary and Fairfield General.Stockport NHS Foundation trust confirmed two more deaths.Bolton NHS Foundation Trust and Tameside and Glossop

Sandy Noble, 33, from Scarborough, was found unresponsive by a colleague on February 22 and was pronounced dead at the scene, a pre-inquest hearing at Rochdale Coroners' Court was told on Wednesday morning.

direct to your inboxAnother 16 people have died in Greater Manchester's hospitals after testing positive for Covid-19.The region's hospital death toll has now reached 5,516, the latest NHS figures show.Five new deaths were recorded by Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

direct to your inboxRoyal Oldham Hospital bosses have been ordered by the health watchdog to improve the quality of care in A&E after inspectors found problems with training, staffing levels, waiting times - and infection control blunders.

direct to your inboxA further 11 people have died in Greater Manchester's hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus.The region's coronavirus hospital death toll has now reached 5,202, the latest NHS figures show.Nine new deaths were confirmed by Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.The trust's figures include those of North Manchester General, the Royal Oldham, Fairfield General and Rochdale Infirmary.Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and Salford Royal recorded one new Covid death

direct to your inboxA further 34 people have died in Greater Manchester's hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus.The region's hospital death toll has risen to 5,086 the latest NHS figures show.Fifteen new deaths were recorded by Stockport NHS Foundation Trust in its 24 hour data.Seven Covid-related deaths were confirmed by Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust .

Emmerdale stars Laura Norton and Mark Jordon have announced the birth of their first child. The soap stars - who play Kerry Wyatt and  Daz Spencer in the ITV series - shared pictures on Instagram of baby boy Jesse, who was born in the early hours of Friday 29th of January at the Royal Oldham hospital in Manchester, weighing 8lb 10 oz.

direct to your inboxTwenty-seven more people have died in Greater Manchester's hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus.The region's hospital death toll has now reached 4,645, the latest NHS figures show.Nine more deaths have been recorded at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.The trust's figures include those for North Manchester General, the Royal Oldham, Fairfield General and Rochdale Infirmary.Eight further deaths were confirmed by Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation

direct to your inboxFifteen more people have died in Greater Manchester's hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus.The region's hospital death toll has risen to 3,915, the latest NHS figures show.Six more Covid-related deaths were recorded at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

direct to your inboxForty-six more people have died in Greater Manchester's hospitals after contracting coronavirus.The latest NHS figures bring the region's hospital death toll to 3,833.Thirteen more Covid-19 deaths were recorded by Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust in their 24 hour data.The trust's figures include those for the Royal Oldham, Rochdale Infirmary, Fairfield General and North Manchester General.The Royal Bolton Hospital recorded 12 new deaths while Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh

direct to your inboxA further 20 people have died from coronavirus in Greater Manchester's hospitals.The region's hospital death toll has now reached 3,735, the latest NHS figures show.Five more deaths were confirmed at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, the organisation in charge of North Manchester General, the Royal Oldham, Rochdale Infirmary and Fairfield General..Four more Covid deaths were recorded at Stepping Hill Hospital while Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Tameside and Glossop

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust.

Staff at a group of Greater Manchester NHS hospitals have now helped more than 1,000 patients who were suffering from Covid-19 on the road to recovery.The Northern Care Alliance (NCA) celebrated reaching the milestone after discharging more people this weekend who had tested positive for the coronavirus.The group oversees five hospitals - Salford Royal, The Royal Oldham, Fairfield, Rochdale Infirmary and North Manchester General - as well as looking after community services.A spokesman for the

hereClinicians are concerned about a potential influx of patients as a result of people hitting the booze after months cooped up at home.Outdoor coverings are being put up outside some emergency units, should large queues form outside.Clinicians could triage patients outside to assess whether they need to be treated in A&E, or whether they can seek treatment elsewhere.

The end of life care team at Salford Royal Hospital are asking knitters to help create teddy bears to help comfort Covid-19 patients.