A patient ‘with a history of travel to West Africa’ is being tested for Ebola at North Manchester General Hospital.

Patients are being moved out of a Rochdale care home, after a damning report published on Friday revealed a series of continuing failures that have put residents at risk.

As news hits of NHS crises across the country continues this week, the future of our health service seems uncertain, but 92% of Manchester are sure they do not want it to be privatisation.

Tameside MP Andrew Gwynne has condemned the government’s response to the A&E crisis that has left units across the country ‘at the point of collapse’.

Bolton West MP Julie Hilling is backing the British Heart Foundation’s push to make it compulsory for children to learn life-saving skills in school.

Just one in five men in the North West get their five a day, placing the region second worst in the country, according to a new study by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.

Newborn babies across Manchester will be screened for four dangerous and potentially life-threatening genetic disorders from today.

A new approach is needed to tackle ‘lifestyle’ diseases, such as cancer and heart disease, claims a Manchester University lecturer.

The health and wellbeing of Greater Manchester’s children is at risk as Ofsted reveals that 41% of children’s homes and nurseries are failing after recent inspections.

Professor Ian Jacobs, Director of Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC), believes that young people can have a ‘profound impact’ on health outcomes for future generations.

As cannabis gains recognition for its medical properties, and with four American states having legalised the drug, will the UK decriminalise weed?