Andy Burnham Richard Leese city Manchester hospital NHS patient Andy Burnham Richard Leese city Manchester

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

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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’.

Planning and forecasting within the system has so far proved ‘very, very good indeed’, he said. But dramatically rising pressure - particularly in the past seven days and over the weekend - now meant that at some.

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