Greater Manchester was hit with intense pressures this winter as strains on the NHS rose to unprecedented heights. But health bosses have admitted those same challenges will continue even as the spring approaches.
Hundreds of patients who cannot leave wards, hospitalised Covid patients in January almost reaching peak pandemic levels, and thousands languishing on operation waiting lists - all have become routine within the NHS. Hospital leaders shared the state of the region’s NHS in a candid testimony to Manchester Council’s health scrutiny committee.
This week, the committee held an ‘extraordinary’ emergency meeting to hear how the city, and the rest of Greater Manchester, is coping as the NHS continues in crisis. Here, the Manchester Evening News tours each part of the region's hospitals and finds out how each is coping.
