Shot in the arm for NHS patients

THREE million pounds will be invested across Greater Manchester to improve hospital-based mental-health services.

Mental-health practitioners at the Royal Oldham Hospital will provide support to patients visiting the A&E department, those with alcohol problems and older people with dementia, as part of a new liaison service set up by the Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust.

Dr Keith Jeffery, a local GP and NHS Oldham CCG’s clinical director for mental health, said: “I’m very pleased to see our work come to fruition and that local people can begin to benefit from this proven initiative.”