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22.07.2022 / 21:43

Latest Covid peak that has seen cases soar will be felt for MONTHS, Manchester's public health boss warns

The knock-on effects of the latest coronavirus peak will be felt for 'some months' by NHS hospital and care services, Manchester's public health director has warned. However, the country is now cresting the wave of infections and should see a decline.

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20.07.2022 / 16:09

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Covid-19 staff absences and bed shortages piling pressure on strained NHS services, say health chiefs

Covid-19 is once more piling pressure on an already strained NHS, according to Greater Manchester health chiefs. Staff absences as a result of coronavirus are seeing shortages in hospitals, GP surgeries, and community care.

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08.03.2022 / 21:01

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Grenfell Tower Inquiry chief appointed as boss to run NHS in Greater Manchester as the way we get our health care undergoes major changes

A Grenfell Tower Inquiry chief has been appointed as the new boss of the NHS in Greater Manchester - as the health service undergoes sweeping changes.

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13.10.2021 / 16:26

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Outgoing Manchester council leader Sir Richard Leese to run NHS in Greater Manchester as chair of major new health board

Outgoing Manchester council chief Sir Richard Leese will take charge of the NHS in the region as he becomes chair of a major new health board, it has been announced.

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22.06.2021 / 23:15

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Headteachers and parents 'crying out for help' as number of schools hit by Covid tops 100

Headteachers and parents are 'crying out for help' with more and more children being sent home from schools in Greater Manchester.

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11.06.2021 / 16:23

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Manchester has England's LOWEST vaccination rate outside London - despite 9th highest Covid infection rate in country

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29.04.2021 / 18:32

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Greater Manchester's Covid-19 deaths continue to fall, but how close are we to herd immunity?

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01.04.2021 / 13:11

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Covid infection rates rise in some Greater Manchester boroughs - with 'concern' over 'relatively slow' falls

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25.02.2021 / 00:29

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Latest coronavirus infection rate for Greater Manchester shows overnight increase for the first time since early January

that the effects of the national lockdown may be wearing off.At a press conference today, Sir Richard Leese, the leader of Manchester council ad the region's health lead, admitted our infection rates are 'not going down fast enough'.He pointed to Bury where there has been several days of positive cases increasing and said while it’s 'too early to say' if it is a trend, it is an ‘area of concern’.Bolton is once again the borough with the highest infection rate in Greater Manchester with 236.5 cases per 100,000 people in the week ending February 20. There were 446 positive tests in Bury for the same period, and that is 60 more than in the previous week.

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24.02.2021 / 21:53

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Bury's coronavirus infection rate is continuing to rise - and officials say they are unable to explain why

Bury in the week up to February 20 - up 60 on the previous seven days. Whilst cases have continued to fall across most of the region, the borough's infection rate has persistently increased for more than a week and now stands at 233 cases per 100,000 people.

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11.02.2021 / 20:55

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Hospital admissions, infection rates and a route out of lockdown - the very latest coronavirus situation in Greater Manchester

direct to your inboxAndy Burnham held his latest press conference yesterday giving the very latest situation on the coronavirus situation in our region.The Mayor was joined by the region's health lead, Sir Richard Leese, and deputy mayor Baroness Beverley Hughes. From infection rates to vaccines and a lockdown exit, the press conference covered all facets of where Greater Manchester currently stands in its fight against the virus.

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22.01.2021 / 23:34

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Children’s hospital to open adult Covid beds as Greater Manchester NHS faces unprecedented crisis

direct to your inboxThe Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital is to open emergency Covid beds for adults in a sign of the unprecedented pressure facing Greater Manchester’s hospitals.Sir Richard Leese, the region’s health chief, said the situation in the system was now ‘critical’ as NHS bosses have scrambled to discharge as many people as possible ahead of a sustained peak over the coming three weeks.Crisis meetings have been held to determine the ability to scale up beds, as Salford Royal and Wigan’s hospital trust have both seen intensive care close to full in recent days.As part of so-called ‘super surge’ plans, four extra high dependency beds will be opened at RMCH from Monday, following a similar plan adopted by Alder Hey in

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13.01.2021 / 23:00

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Most people in intensive care here now have Covid - how our hospitals face their ‘worst crisis’ of the pandemic

direct to your inboxCovid patients now make up two thirds of people in our critical care beds as the region’s health lead warns Greater Manchester faces its ‘worst crisis’ since the pandemic began.Fears are also growing that people with other life-threatening illnesses are now staying away from A&E, in echoes of the first wave.But priority operations, including cancer, are continuing to be postponed as the region tracks close to its ‘worst case scenario’ for bed occupancy and attempts to manage scarce critical care beds.Sir Richard Leese, political lead on health for Greater Manchester, has warned that any results of New Year’s Eve mixing are also yet to be felt on the system - adding that when the peak does arrive for hospitals here it

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06.01.2021 / 20:15

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Greater Manchester hospitals at risk of 'falling over' and cancer ops likely to be cancelled after 'unprecedented' surge in coronavirus cases

direct to your inboxGreater Manchester's hospitals are at risk of 'falling over' in the next three weeks due to an 'unprecedented' surge in Covid cases, the region's health chief has warned - meaning cancer operations are very likely to be cancelled.Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, Sir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester City Council, painted a bleak picture of the next few weeks in our hospital system, pointing to a 'phenomenal' increase in admissions as medics brace for the third wave peak.To cope with the influx of patients, health bosses will likely have to boost intensive care beds and find staff from other departments, including medics like anaesthesiologists, who carry out cancer operations.This means cancer operations

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26.11.2020 / 14:21

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Mancunians could be given a place to remember loved ones lost to Covid-19, according to council leader

Mancunians who have lost loved ones to Covid-19 will be given a place to help them remember and deal with their trauma 'when circumstances allow', the city’s leader has said.More than 55,000 people have died from the virus since March - with people in Manchester accounting for over 540 deaths.Sir Richard Leese said it was 'absolutely vital' to provide a space where those affected could remember and deal with their loss, though it remains unclear what form it could take.The leader of Manchester council Sir Richard Leese has described the pandemic as the ‘biggest international trauma’ the world has faced since the Second World War.A regional resilience hub set up in response to the Manchester Arena bombing in 2017 has also ‘never been

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07.11.2020 / 18:44

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All Greater Manchester hospital trusts suspend non-urgent care amid Covid surge

Both Wigan and Stockport’s NHS trusts had already taken that decision in the past fortnight as both had come under increasing pressure. On Wednesday the region’s health lead Sir Richard Leese indicated that that move was likely to happen more broadly across the system in November - as hospitals dealt with a ‘very, very worrying’ level of pressures - and last night the M.E.N.

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04.11.2020 / 23:17

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'Very, very worrying' situation unfolds for Greater Manchester's NHS as Covid patients pass April peak

Andy Burnham said he had never known the ambulance service see a major incident during November of the kind it saw on Monday, warning this was ‘the first big sign of what is happening here in our hospitals and the challenge that colleagues are facing’. At a subdued weekly press conference on the latest pandemic situation, Manchester council leader Sir Richard Leese - who leads on health for Greater Manchester - said he had no good news to impart on the health situation but stressed he was confident the NHS here ‘will not collapse’.

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14.10.2020 / 15:00

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Manchester council is preparing for a £100m funding shortfall caused by financial fallout of Covid-19 pandemic

Bosses say they will be able to contain the economic fallout of the pandemic during the current 2020/21 financial year - but a bleak picture has been painted for the years to come.

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12.10.2020 / 12:14

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Warning new coronavirus restrictions 'could continue until Christmas'

hereIt's understood that Manchester's local leaders are still in discussions over Greater Manchester's status.The leader of Manchester City Council, Sir Richard Leese told the BBC, as he said they hoped to remain in Tier 2.Mr Johnson will chair the emergency Cobra committee this morning, before addressing the Commons this afternoon.Mr Dowden told Sky News: "If those measures are successful we hope to be able to take areas out of those high levels of restrictions."The purpose of doing this is to ensure we get the virus under control so by the time that we get through to after Christmas we are in that position where it is under control."Indeed I hope it will be sooner than that."Dr Lance Turtle, senior lecturer in infectious diseases at

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We will act if virus spreads in London, says UK minister

The UK government will act if the coronavirus spreads through London as it has done in other parts of Britain, junior business minister Nadhim Zahawi has said today.

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Manchester declares 'major incident' over rise in Covid-19 cases

A major incident has been declared in the Manchester area of England, allowing the creation of a "central command structure" to help tackle the rising number of coronavirus cases, a local official has confirmed.

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22.07.2020 / 11:33

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Manchester council says it can contain Covid-related losses this year - but a £162m funding black hole lies ahead

if the latest round of government funding falls short of what is needed to cover the outstanding deficit. Sir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester council, said this was ‘only a problem deferred, not a problem solved’, with the impact likely to be felt in years to come.“What we need now is a long-term financial settlement from the government which recognises the unique challenges we face and the vital role the Council needs to play in the city's recovery from the pandemic,” he added.“That's something we will continue to fight for.

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23.06.2020 / 20:07

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Manchester becomes latest council to warn of potential ‘bankruptcy’ due to Covid-19

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20.05.2020 / 20:13

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Greater Manchester to set up its own track-and-trace system from next week

Greater Manchester is to launch its own ‘track and trace’ system next Tuesday as pressure on the government to complete a national version ramps up.

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06.05.2020 / 17:25

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Manchester preparing for sharp unemployment spike as city centre likened to a 'nuclear winter'

Manchester is preparing for unemployment to rise by a third during the coronavirus crisis – as one council chief warned that the empty city centre looks like a ‘nuclear winter’.

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24.04.2020 / 12:31

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Councils 'set to lose £541m during coronavirus crisis'

The coronavirus crisis will cost Greater Manchester councils £541 million in extra costs and lost income, a town hall leader has said.

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Richard Leese - Royal Oldham - Cancer referrals have fallen two thirds here and A&E visits are down dramatically - our health chiefs are worried - manchestereveningnews.co.uk - city Manchester

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22.04.2020 / 20:31

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Cancer referrals have fallen two thirds here and A&E visits are down dramatically - our health chiefs are worried

A two-thirds drop in cancer referrals across Greater Manchester during the coronavirus pandemic has been described as ‘very, very worrying’ by the region’s health chief - who has also warned of falling A&E attendances and rising mental health cases.

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22.04.2020 / 19:41

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We are nearly at the coronavirus peak here - and spare hospital space could soon be used for other things

Greater Manchester is nearly at its coronavirus peak, its health chief has said, as admissions and deaths begin to level off.

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09.04.2020 / 13:05

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She spent her political career championing the vulnerable and poverty-stricken - here's how you can pay a special tribute to Manchester council's 'much-loved' deputy leader

Friends and colleagues of the ‘much-loved’ late deputy leader of Manchester council Sue Murphy will be able to leave messages in an online book of condolence.

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07.04.2020 / 20:16

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Heartbreak and shock as Manchester council’s ‘kind, compassionate’ deputy leader dies

Shocked tributes have been paid to Manchester council’s deputy leader Sue Murphy, who has died at the age of 59.

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01.04.2020 / 20:25

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One in three Greater Manchester hospital beds are already taken by coronavirus patients

A third of hospital beds across the region are now occupied by people with coronavirus, the region’s health chief has revealed.

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