Manchester’s scientists and clinicians have formed a rapid response research group to find ways to save lives nationally and globally from coronavirus.

Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham was joined today by civic, health, and business leaders to speak about what measures will be taken to mitigate the impact of the escalating coronavirus pandemic on the city area’s health and the economy.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak launched Britain’s biggest spending spree in 65 years – while repeating the phrase ‘get it done’ what seemed like 65 times – as he spoke for just over 65 minutes in a far-reaching budget on Wednesday.

The three-year deal will see Mundipharma become City’s Official Healthcare Product Partner in Asia Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

Manchester campaigners took to the streets to march against cuts to NHS Bursaries, which could leave healthcare students with as much as £60,000 of debt.

Diabetes services in Manchester are thriving, while hundreds of patients in other regions are being denied vital information about how to cope with their lifelong disease.

Cuts to Manchester’s mental health services will ’cause more deaths’, warned a local patient support group as they lobbied outside the Town Hall yesterday.

A local campaign group have stated that ‘our NHS faces extinction’, as they lead the fight to prevent the downgrading of six district hospitals in Greater Manchester.

Healthcare in Greater Manchester is under the spotlight as Manchester City Council announced the arrival of Health Innovation Manchester (HIM) today.

An online alcohol demotivator app is giving alcoholics across Manchester and the country another tool to add to their sobriety tool kit in their battle against addiction.

The wellbeing of the Manchester’s residents is in for a boost thanks to a new partnership being formed under the devolution of health and social care.