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The NHS and Asda are teaming up to provide vital advice on millions of toothpaste tubes and mouthwash bottles encouraging people to contact their GP or dentist if they notice any potential symptoms of mouth cancer.
Date Published 29/07/2024
Oldham Active has joined a Government pilot to expand the NHS health checks by offering free workplace health checks to local businesses and encouraging more employers to join the...
Date Published 04/12/2024
Oldham's Public Health Director has welcomed funding for research into the disease which killed her mum.
Date Published 21/11/2024
Nationwide and Dementia UK are bringing free face-to-face specialist dementia care to Oldham, Manchester and Bolton during World Alzheimer’s Month in September.
Date Published 29/08/2024
A local NHS trust has helped break stigma around mental health, with 60 women from the South Asian community now trained as community mental health champions in Oldham.
Date Published 23/07/2024
Oldham Active (Oldham Community Leisure) has announced the promotion of Simon Blair to a pivotal new role as Deputy CEO, overseeing all commercial facets of the business, customer...
Date Published 08/07/2024
Smokers and former smokers aged 55-74 years based at doctors’ surgeries in parts of Oldham will be invited for a lung health check this summer.
Date Published 05/07/2024
Next month, specialist eye hospital Optegra Eye Hospital Manchester is launching a series of diagnostic clinics in areas surrounding the city centre, to make it easier for local...
Date Published 21/06/2024
An Oldham mum had a sneak preview of pioneering work at the Cancer Research UK National Biomarker Centre ahead of its official opening.
Date Published 12/06/2024
A new campaign is being launched by the NHS in Oldham to raise awareness of the link between heartburn, indigestion and gullet cancer.
Date Published 10/06/2024
SpaMedica, the largest NHS cataract surgery provider in the UK, has over 50 hospitals across the UK, including one located in Sheepfoot Lane in Oldham, which help thousands of...
Date Published 06/06/2024
Construction specialist MTX has completed complex groundworks for the new endoscopy unit in phase 2 of the new Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) Community...
Date Published 23/02/2024
Those transitioning from female to male are being left with the lasting legacy of the unequal health treatment they received - as women.
Date Published 20/02/2024
A new NHS mobile ‘clinic in a van’ is coming to Oldham so staff can talk to men about their risk of prostate cancer.
Date Published 22/08/2023
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Date Published 22/07/2023
Oldham Active (Oldham Community Leisure), the charitable trust that operates leisure facilities in the borough, is investing £500k into the refurbishment and improvement of four...
Date Published 19/05/2023
Experts at the Manchester Institute of Health and Performance (MIHP), which is operated by Nuffield Health, are changing lives delivering a free programme to help people in Oldham...
Date Published 19/02/2023
The only Greater Manchester-wide awards for our whole health and care workforce are back for their fourth year, and are bigger and better than ever.
Date Published 12/01/2023
A surgeon who was an inspiration to Royal Oldham’s colleagues is the namesake of the hospital’s new £28m extension.
Date Published 18/11/2022
A Failsworth great-grandfather who officially opened a new garden for patients and staff at North Manchester General Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) has described it as...
Date Published 08/11/2022
The Healthy Gems Hub hosted an open day when they invited the local community to see the range of services and support they had on offer in their new base at Lindley House in...
Date Published 23/10/2022
A mum-of-three who was denied the chance to sound the bell at The Christie because of Covid, has shared her remarkable recovery from cancer in a bid to make women 'breast aware'.
Date Published 14/10/2022
The recurrent attacks of head pain, fatigue and aura can drag you down until you feel entirely submerged.
Date Published 03/10/2022
A £1million grant has been awarded to health professionals in Greater Manchester by the National Institute for Health and Care Research for a study into early intervention...
Date Published 30/09/2022
UKHSA North West and NHS England North West are urging everyone eligible for a free flu vaccine and a COVID-19 booster across Oldham to take up the offer as soon as possible ahead...
Date Published 27/09/2022
More than half a million people are now on NHS waiting lists across Greater Manchester, with tens of thousands of them waiting for more than one year.
Date Published 26/09/2022
An Oldham GP will use the receipt of a national honour to call on the vaping industry to 'continue to do all they can to extinguish smoking in pregnancy forever'.
Date Published 11/09/2022
As awareness of mental health continues to increase at a rapid rate, a mother and daughter duo from Oldham have made a career switch to help those in need of support.
Date Published 07/09/2022
Three nurses from The Christie are taking on the Yorkshire Three Peaks challenge to raise money for the specialist cancer centre.
Date Published 18/08/2022
The combined total of first, second, booster and spring booster doses given in the city-region has hit 6 million.
Date Published 07/08/2022
Local people are being encouraged to share their thoughts on the standards of care they receive at GPs, dentists, hospitals and care homes, with the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
An Oldham technology firm has launched a brand new wellness scheme to better support their employees with their mental and physical health.
Date Published 31/07/2022
A clinical trial of a pioneering therapy which helps people with psychosis and schizophrenia to control frightening and intrusive images has launched in Greater Manchester.
Date Published 25/07/2022
The closure of 100 surgeries per year, a haemorrhaging of staff due to Brexit and their own 'personal war' with GPs has meant that the Government has left surgeries on their
Date Published 14/07/2022
The joint mental health service partnership between Greater Manchester Police, the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) and the Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust has won a NHS...
Date Published 13/07/2022
People across Greater Manchester are being urged to seek life-changing health information during their weekly shop, as a new survey suggests many may be missing out on free and...
Date Published 12/07/2022
Fifteen paramedics who have trained in Australia and New Zealand will soon begin responding to 999 calls across areas of the North West as part of a brand new Health Education...
Date Published 09/07/2022
A refurbishment of The Christie’s radiotherapy centre in Oldham reached a major milestone this week with the arrival of a new life-saving linear accelerator.
Date Published 06/07/2022
NHS Blood and Transplant is urgently appealing for people to make an appointment to donate at one of the two Donor Centres in Manchester because stock levels have dropped.
Date Published 29/06/2022
The Government has stated that people across the country will benefit from faster, more personalised healthcare, following a digital revolution that will make the health and...
Experts are urging people to have regular eye checks to help protect them from glaucoma - one of the leading causes of blindness in the world.
Date Published 27/06/2022
The haematology team at the Royal Oldham Hospital are leading the way with a pioneering chemotherapy treatment programme delivering treatment to cancer patients in the comfort of...
Date Published 24/06/2022
Oldham is about to host one of the most important events ever staged in the North of England on endometriosis, a condition that cripples one in ten women of childbearing age.
NHS Blood and Transplant are urging people in and around Manchester to give blood as new targets reveal 10,178 new donors are needed in the region to save lives over the next
Date Published 13/06/2022
A new leader responsible for the integration of health and care in Oldham has been appointed.
Date Published 08/06/2022
Mental health services in Oldham will receive a boost following the creation of a new psychology trainee role.
Date Published 05/06/2022
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Date Published 22/05/2022
Ten tell-tale signs of dementia are being highlighted by Alzheimer’s Society across Greater Manchester in a bid to help people get the support they need.
Date Published 21/05/2022
The government is well over half way to delivering on its manifesto commitment of having 26,000 more primary care staff by March 2024, according to data published yesterday...
Date Published 20/05/2022
More community sexual health facilities are to be provided for people in Oldham, Bury and Rochdale.
Date Published 17/05/2022
Over 2 million UK parents who have been told their child has "short sight" by their optician are unaware that it is a casual term for a disease called myopia that is directly...
NHS prescription charges will be frozen for the first time in 12 years to help with the cost of living.
Date Published 16/05/2022
General practice staff are asking for patience and support as they work through their busiest ever period.
Date Published 26/09/2021
An award-winning NHS campaign which has enabled over 10,000 people across Greater Manchester to take part in valuable health and care research is calling on others to help make a...
A new women’s health plan introduced by the Scottish Government has been deemed “just what the doctor ordered” by an Oldham GP.
Date Published 06/09/2021
Fans of five-a-side football are taking advantage of an exciting new indoor arena in Oldham - Kick Sonic.
Date Published 26/08/2021
When talented young musician and DJ Callum Wall found himself diagnosed with and ‘in a bit of a headlock with’ leukaemia, he knew of one thing that would help him through his...
Date Published 25/06/2021
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Group’s efforts to try and ensure nobody died alone during the COVID-19 pandemic have been recognised by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).
A new film that will raise awareness in young people of the potential damage caused by drinking alcohol when pregnant will premiere online on Thursday (June 24) at 2pm.
Date Published 21/06/2021
As the largest ever NHS vaccination programme 'enters its last lap', the North West Regional Director of Commissioning has encouraged Oldham residents to come forward for their...
Date Published 18/06/2021
“Don’t sit on it."
Date Published 17/06/2021
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