NHS

Protect your child from influenza this winter

Child flu vaccine alert as illness spreads

Be Well Stop Smoking Service client Kayleigh Phillips with her health coach Julie Platt

Smoking rates fall as residents stub it ot

Dr Paula Cowan

'Think pharmacy' for healthcare advice

Garswood Surgery, where Billinge Medical Practice is now based

GP surgery's website 'unavailable' after tech firm's collapse

Joy Cullen gave up her job as her hip pain pre-surgery was too severe

NHS patients choose to travel further for surgeries under scheme

Erika Slater (left) daughter Sara on their 60th and 40th birthdays

Charity trek in memory of mum and inspirational nurse

Breast screening detects thousands of breast cancers each year

Women dice with death by missing breast cancer checks

Cathy Stanford (left) with WWL's assistant director of nursing, Amanda Cheesman

Farewell to midwifery boss after 50 years' service

Julie Middlehurst, assistant director infrastructure and regulatory services and chair of Wigan Borough Community Safety Partnership, centre, with other members of the partnership

Community safety partnership plays pivotal role in residents’ lives

Health Tech Awards 2026

Acclaim for hospital teams' use of high tech

The eFalls pilot, launched in Wigan, used routine NHS data to identify more than 1,100 people aged 65 and over who were at increased risk of falling

Local pilot scheme helps prevent OAP falls

Steven Bonilla-Graham-Darby and Louise Handsley, from Moss Floral Art, at Fleur de Villes Diana

Early success for new floristry business

Take simple steps to protect yourself against illness this winter

Protect yourself and others this winter with seasonal jabs

Prime minister Andy Burnham delivering his keynote speech (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

PM makes first party conference speech

WWL's chief nurse Kev Parker-Evans with Mr Motivator

WWL launches Fundamentals of Care Academy

Mr Motivator, real name Derrick Evans MBE, is hosting a free taster class, The 11am Club, an inclusive chair-based exercise class for everyone, Wednesday 30th September 11am at The Ellesmere Suite, Leigh Masonic Hall. He will also host a taster class for a high energy, low-impact class later that day at 6.15pm at the same venue. Further sessions can be booked (and paid for) in October.

Keep fit star Mr Motivator's local taster sessions
TV legend Mr Motivator, now a Wigan resident, is launching new fitness classes for people of all ages and is beginning with free taster sessions
Charles Graham

Clinician putting a plaster on a young person's arm after a vaccination

Get fully covered with your second MenB jab

Members of the breast screening team at the Thomas Linacre Centre with Debbie Dowie from Boot Out Breast Cancer

New breast screening technology now available

Lead nurses Sarah Litherland and Maria Griffin alongside consultant cardiologist Dr Ayyaz Sultan and department manager Chris Woods

Cardiac team gets resus manikin to boost training

Taking care of your health as a student takes a worry away from studies

NHS urges students to get vaccinated

New Health offers clinician-led weight management designed to fit around everyday life, without the need for in-person appointments.

What private weight management treatments are available without NHS?

Patients continue to face difficulties accessing routine NHS dental care

Getting to the root of dentist appointment woes

Alison Robinson, Head of Research at WWL

Study to explore diet and mental health links

A limited number of pharmacies will be open

Pharmacies open on August bank holiday Monday

More than 850 of the hardest-to-reach members of communities across the country will be seen onboard

Mobile dental unit to deliver care to rough sleepers

Order any repeat prescriptions early

Where to find NHS help over bank holiday

Michael Medlicott, CEO at Compassionate Care Group

Home care group expanding into borough
A care company specialising in looking after people with complex needs in their own home is expanding into Wigan and its boss says this will ease pressures on the NHS
Victoria Maltby

Wrightington Hospital is a world leader for hip and knee replacement surgery

1,000 patients waiting for hip replacements

The overgrown land where the new Abram pharmacy would sit

Pharmacy and apartments plan

A radiologist at a workstation using the prostate MRI technology

Hospitals use AI in cancer detection

Crissi McMahon after her operation 10 years ago

Final fund-raising push for mum's brain cancer treatment

Two doses are needed

Students can get MenB vaccine before uni

WWL's Tony Rigby, took part in a charity abseil to raise vital funds for the Trust's official charity, Three Wishes.

Dunds raised for hospital charity by daring abseil

Wigan & Leigh Hospice, which is located in Hindley, within Andy Burnham's constituency of Makerfield.

Burnham urged for hospice funding

Andy Burnham arrives at Trades Union Congress to give a speech, after it was announced that he is the new leader of the Labour Party

Burnham's dad does not know he will be PM due to dementia

Kelly Griffin at the summit

Woman summits North Africa's tallest mountain

Charlie on one of the blood bikes

Teen escorted to prom by blood bikes

Nearly two in 10 older people avoided going to A&E during winter last year due to these concerns

Six in 10 over 65s worry about catching flu from A&E trips

Medical memories of two former Wigan hospitals at Whelley and Billinge

Kelly and her dad

Wigan woman to take on huge climb

Claire Crickson

Local mum diagnosed with pancreatic cancer

Professor Chris Brookes (right) celebrates Wigan Warriors' World Club Challenge triumph in 2024 with Willie Isa (left)

Warriors chair on MBE - 'The biggest honour of my professional life'

Wigan Warriors chairman Professor Chris Brookes has been awarded an MBE

Warriors chairman awarded MBE after decades of service to rugby league

Doctor with a stethoscope

NHS services alert ahead of strike and World Cup games

This week is National Blood Week

Ad Feature Survey reveals the real reason people don’t give blood

Dame Robina Shah

Hospital chairman Robina given Freedom of City of London

Wrightington Hospital staff

Hospital waiting lists continue to fall

Janet Davenport, practice development lead for district nursing, receives the lifetime achievement award from Bridget Lees, deputy regional chief nursing officer, and Kev Parker-Evans, WWL's chief nursing officer

Celebration event for nurses and midwives

Hub of Hope advert at Manchester Piccadilly Station

Council launches new mental health app

Sharpsmart works with hospitals and healthcare providers across the UK to deliver specialist healthcare waste services.

Ad Feature Sharpsmart strengthens waste service resilience and greener logistics

Co-founders of Predictive Health Intelligence, Tim Jobson and Neil Stevens

Ad Feature New study reveals new way to find serious liver disease earlier

James Morgan

Wigan mum takes on 16-mile walk

NHS Greater Manchester falls responder team

Huge rise in falls call-outs

Robert Kenyon will represent Reform UK in the by-election

Reform UK announces by-election candidate

Billinge Medical Practice, on Recreation Drive, Billinge

Questions about future of medical centre

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