Ten thousand patients wait over a year for operations as an exhausted NHS workforce braces for a bleak Covid winter

the Mirror reports.Greater Manchester would pass the peak of the first wave by November 2 and Covid patients would take up the entire current critical care capacity by November 8, the spokesperson said.All 'surge capacity' would be used up by November 12.However, this capacity in the model appears not to include Manchester’s Nightingale Hospital.Asked if that meant hospitals being overwhelmed, the spokesperson said: “Yes, that’s the entire surge ICU capacity.”“Cases in Greater Manchester

The Guardian reports.

here Internal projections for Greater Manchester’s hospital system has forecast that Covid admissions could hit April’s peak by the end of October if current trends continue. Projections by Public Health England and the conurbation’s health and social care partnership, leaked to the Manchester Evening News, suggest that if current trends continue, hospitals here could be seeing around 238 new Covid admissions a day by the end of October.

Andy Burnham says he is due to hold a meeting with the country's deputy chief medical officer today with regards to the new local lockdown system.

of coronavirus were reported in Greater Manchester today as figures show infection rates are rising in nine out of the region's ten boroughs.

posted on Wednesday, said: "Yesterday we were made aware of a likely shortage of reagent supplied by Roche Diagnostics Ltd caused by issues in their supply chain.

the city’s public health department delivered hundreds of tests to students self isolating in the blocks.

here But after winning BBC series Restoration, the baths have since played host to A-list celebrities including Tom Hardy and Sean Bean, as well as being used as a location for the hit TV series Peaky Blinders. A restoration project is ongoing.

unable to confirm whether restrictions in Oldham were stricter than in other areas of Greater Manchester.

with each other rather than, for example, being linked to any obvious large workplace outbreak.

The total number of coronavirus deaths at hospital trusts in Greater Manchester, as of Saturday, October 3 is:Nationally, a further 42 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths in hospitals to 30,138.Patients were aged between 44 and 100 years old.

straight to your inboxWhen it comes to net spend, Manchester City are top of the tree in English football.City have splashed out more than any other club in the pyramid, spending £867m more than they have brought in since the start of the 2011/12 season.That’s more than twice as much as Liverpool, who beat City to the Premier League title last season, while Manchester United (£814m) are the only club in English football with even half of City’s net spend over the period in question.The figures

straight to your inboxPep Guardiola has hailed Leeds boss as the person he admires most in world football. The Manchester City boss takes his team to Elland Road tomorrow for a clash which many think could be a classic between two teams who only know how to attack.

Hundreds of people in Salford have been waiting more than a year for NHS treatment as hospitals deals with delays caused by the coronavirus crisis.A total of 712 patients registered with Salford GPs were waiting for greater than 52 weeks after referral, according to the latest figures from August.Most were waiting for treatment at Salford Royal, but there were 241 Salford patients waiting to be treated at Manchester Foundation Trust's hospitals.There were just 26 Salford patients who waited that

revealed that the infection rate for people aged 17 to 21-years-old in Manchester rose to 745 cases per 100,000 people in the past week.Students and parents gave us multiple reports of confirmed cases of coronavirus at student accommodation including several halls of residence in Fallowfield.Yesterday, the university issued a statement to the M.E.N denying that there was a 'spike' or 'outbreak' in its Fallowfield accommodation.But that stance now appears to have changed following publication of

straight to your inboxMarcelo Bielsa says Pep Guardiola could definitely be successful in any division, with or without a lot of transfer funds, just like he has been at Leeds.Guardiola takes his Manchester City side to Elland Road on Sunday to take on Bielsa's Leeds, with the pre-match build up understandably focussing on the relationship between the two managers.

There has been a ‘significant increase’ in the number of coronavirus patients in ICU beds across Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham has revealed. The mayor spoke out about the rising number coronavirus cases during a press conference on Wednesday afternoon.The ‘significant rise’ in cases refers to those in ICU and non-ICU.There were 41 cases of Covid-19 in ICU beds across Greater Manchester hospitals in the week ending September 29, up from 28 the previous week. There were 228 cases of Covid-19