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People across the North West are being urged to use the right NHS service for their needs as new data show thousands have attended A&E for minor health concerns such as sore...
Date Published 04/12/2025
The care, compassion and dedication of NHS mental health and learning disability staff has been recognised at a glittering awards ceremony.
Date Published 01/12/2025
A Royton man is urging others to seek help after receiving life-changing support from a local mental health service when work stress and anxiety took a toll on his health.
Date Published 28/11/2025
Emergency department staff at The Royal Oldham Hospital have been recognised as part of the UK’s first-ever A&E Appreciation Week, launched by the charity Rapid Relief Team (RRT)...
Date Published 05/11/2025
This week marks Carers Week and the launch of a new web platform created to support local people living with dementia and those who care for them.
Date Published 17/06/2025
An Oldham dad living with incurable breast cancer is urging men to be aware of the symptoms, this Men’s Health Week.
Date Published 11/06/2025
Oldham Active is the first leisure provider in the UK to officially train and qualify its fitness team to deliver advice and guidance on GLP-1 weight loss medications.
Date Published 09/06/2025
It was smiles all around for Ascroft Medical as they celebrated ten years of dental and medical provision in Oldham.
Date Published 03/06/2025
The Christie at Oldham, the first in a unique network of local radiotherapy treatment centres, has celebrated its 15th birthday.
Date Published 22/04/2025
"For a long time I have wanted to work for the NHS. It pleases me to help someone in need of care" said one participant.
Date Published 16/04/2025
Seventy-two-year-old Anthony Fearon has proved you’re never too old to change your ways.
Date Published 01/04/2025
The NHS has teamed up with the Dianne Oxberry Trust and Target Ovarian Cancer to bring a new awareness roadshow to the streets of Greater Manchester –...
Date Published 10/03/2025
A cervical cancer survivor from Oldham is urging more women to come forward for their cervical screening appointments, as she thanks the test for saving her life.
Date Published 27/01/2025
An Oldham woman who lived with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) for over 20 years has praised a local NHS therapy service for helping her take back control of her life.
Date Published 20/01/2025
Just weeks after being hospitalised, an intensive care nurse told guests at a Chadderton café event how crippling endometriosis had reached her lungs and bladder.
Date Published 15/01/2025
More Oldhamers will be offered a free Lung Health Check in 2025.
Date Published 13/01/2025
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
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...
Date Published 29/07/2024
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
