Patients and campaigners are rallying together as the announcement comes that many of Greater Manchester’s hospitals are set to be downgraded after Healthier Together’s review of healthcare.

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as ‘outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission.

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.

Starvation and undernourishment caused 162 people to be admitted to hospitals in Central Manchester and Salford last year, shocking statistics have revealed.

Rats’ nests by children’s hospital wards and cockroach infestations in surgery departments are just some of the 350 cases of vermin call-outs faced by North Manchester hospitals in 2014, MM can reveal.

Vernacare, founded 50 years ago, has been chosen as part of the UK Governments emergency response

Rebekah Kirby, 22, of Oldham, died of stomach and lung cancer on Monday night, having only been diagnosed on December 20