Patients at a Trafford care home have been left feeling unsafe as they are treated by ‘strangers’ and given incorrect doses of their medicine, a Care Quality Commission report reveals.

The public health agenda of each of the areas will now be driven by plans laid out by their own health and wellbeing boards.

A&E waiting times could plummet at one of Manchester’s largest hospitals this week as a successful national initiative kicks into action there.

A Rochdale care home for the elderly is reeling from an ‘inadequate’ rating in their latest report by the Care Quality Commission.

This is the poetic plea of a brave Wythenshawe tot, Jessica Rooney, who cannot walk or talk and would love a walking frame to help her explore – and she needs your help to get it.

A Manchester female genital mutilation awareness charity, Africans Unite Against Child Abuse (AFRUCA), is calling for ‘widespread community’ action to fill the ‘gaping hole’ in the provision of support for FGM victims.

Currently 500,000 people in Greater Manchester are already covered and this will increase to 1.1m people, through new initiatives in Wigan and across the city of Manchester funded by over £8m from the national Prime Minister’s Challenge Fund.

Minister for Life Sciences George Freeman has suggested that people should be forced to pay extra for their unhealthy snacks and sugary drinks in order to tackle obesity. MM takes to the streets to find out Manchester’s opinion of a potential sugar tax.

A paper authored by University of Manchester health economists suggests the Conservative government’s proposed plans for introducing a seven-day NHS service is not the most cost-effective means of doing so.

Manchester’s voracious veggie lovers unite as the Vegan Fair returns to Chorlton Irish Club tomorrow.

Alexandra Nursery School for under 3s in Daubhill were branded with a ‘major improvement necessary’ stamp by the Food Standards Agency following their visit earlier this year.