Chancellor George Osborne announces groundbreaking plans at Manchester Town Hall to make the region the first to get full control of its £6billion health and social care budget.

Companies should be required to publish annual data about how many disabled people they employ, according to a Manchester MP.

Campaigners have welcomed plans for control of the £6billion NHS budget in Greater Manchester to be handed over to city council and health leaders.

The cleanliness of Greater Manchester hospitals is in question after a report showed that 5,618 vermin – three per day – were recorded in hospitals in the last five years.

A dedicated mum of three from Manchester has written a book about life with her severely autistic son, and wants more people to know that they are not alone in finding it tough.

The report, titled ‘Healthy Services and Safer Patients’, is based on nearly 14,000 patient suicides which occurred between 2004 and 2012.

A Manchester councillor has pledged to ensure every person in the city centre is within four minutes of life-saving defibrillator equipment.

The young Chorlton man petitioning for cannabis oil on the NHS to treat his chronic pain says he never wanted his life to be like this.

Voters in the south Manchester constituency have erected ‘Cameron & Hunt’ estate agency-style boards outside their homes, calling on David Cameron and Jeremy Hunt to use their veto powers to remove the NHS from the TTIP trade deal.

Tameside General has been exposed as having had a higher death rate than the national average during the year spent in special measures.

Ed Miliband will reveal Labour’s ’10 year plan’ for the NHS in Trafford today in an attempt to win the trust of voters – 100 days before the General Election.