NHS England

Garswood Surgery, where Billinge Medical Practice is now based

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

Breast screening detects thousands of breast cancers each year

Women dice with death by missing breast cancer checks

Wigan Infirmary

Hospital waiting list falls by a third

Wigan Infirmary

Long waits for A&E patients

Information leaflets regarding alcohol use being discussed

WithYou launches alcohol treatment pilot

Wigan Infirmary

Small increase in operations waiting list

Ranked according to the results of the GP Patient Survey

Worst rated GP surgeries revealed

The best GP practices in Wigan have been revealed in the results of the GP Patient Survey

Best rated GP surgeries revealed

Wigan Infirmary

Hospital waiting list shrinking

Wigan Infirmary

£2m boost for urgent and emergency care

Wigan Infirmary

Fewer long waits for hospital beds

A patient has an MRI scan

Fall in numbers on hospital waiting lists

A patient has an MRI scan

Our hospital waiting lists are getting shorter

Wigan Infirmary

More patients waiting over four hours to be seen at Wigan A&E

Wigan Infirmary

How Wigan Infirmary performed in January

Wigan Infirmary

Waiting lists fall for operations and tests
Waiting lists for routine treatment and tests at Wigan’s hospitals are continuing to fall, figures show.
Gaynor Clarke

Wigan Infirmary

Efforts to stop spread of norovirus

Wigan Infirmary

Fewer patients waiting for tests or treatment

Wigan Infirmary's A&E unit

Fewer A&E patients face long waits for beds

Generally, how easy or difficult is it to contact your GP practice on the phone?

GP practices ranked by how difficult it is to phone them

England Rugby League head coach Shaun Wane officially opens the new opearating theatres at Wrightington Hospital

Coach Wane is VIP guest for operating theatres' official opening

Generally, how easy or difficult is it to contact your GP practice on the phone?

GP practices ranked by how easy it is to phone them

Contraceptive pill

More demand for contraception-related services

GPs can issue fit notes to patients after seven days of sickness absence

More than 170,000 fit notes issued by GPs in Greater Manchester

New statistics from NHS England show around 105 people with a learning disability, autism or both were in inpatient services across the NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board area at the end of September: a decrease from about 110 a year earlier

Local people with learning disabilities and autism 'locked away' in hospital

Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Flu Fairies: Nursing Sister Kelly and Advanced Nurse Practitioner Kate

Local vaccine call as early flu peak is predicted

According to the GP Patient Survey results

Least helpful GP receptionists revealed
Take a look at the 15 GP surgeries in Wigan thought to have the least helpful receptionists.
Gaynor Clarke

Figures show 49,337 patients were waiting for non-urgent elective operations or treatment at WWL hospitals at the end of August – up from 48,840 in July, but a decrease on 55,359 in Aug '24

Latest hospital treatment wait statistics are published

According to the GP Patient Survey results

Most helpful GP receptionists revealed

New NHS England figures show patients with a suspected autism referral in the NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board area waited an average of two years and one month to get assessed in June

Long assessment waits for those suspected of being autistic

Black people in Greater Manchester are more than twice as likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act as white people

Black people more likely to be detained under Mental Health Act

Wigan Infirmary

More patients seen on time at A&E

Thousands are waiting for routine hospital treatment

Hospital treatment waiting times revealed

Wigan Infirmary

Martha's Rule to be rolled out after infirmary pilot

NHS England figures show 49,368 patients were waiting for non-urgent elective operations or treatment at WWL facilities at the end of June – down from 50,200 in May, and 56,716 in 2024

Hospital trust latest performance figures

Most GP appointments are still done face to face

One-third of GP appointments remote

According to the results of the latest NHS Patient Survey

Worst rated GP surgeries, according to patients

According to the results of the GP patient survey

Highest rated GP surgeries

NHS bosses in the North West issue message to patients during junior doctors strike

NHS bosses issue message to patients during junior doctors strike

A third of births in Wigan in March were emergency C-sections

More emergency C-sections being carried out

Wigan Infirmary

More A&E patients seen in four hours

Greater Manchester achieves national target for pregnancy smoking rates –numbers...

NHS England figures show there were 52,195 emergency hospital admissions for respiratory disease in the NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board area in 2023-24 – up six per cent from 49,385 the previous year

Worries over rise in A&E admissions for respiratory diseases

New NHS England figures show around 95 hospital admissions of people aged between 10 and 24 years because of self-harm were recorded in Wigan the year to March 2024 – down significantly from about 125 the previous year

Child self-harm figures encouragingly decline

The national waiting list for routine hospital treatment has risen for the first time in seven months

Tens of thousands waiting for hospital treatment

Visitors often flock to Mesnes Park in the sunshine

How to stay safe in the sun in 'mini heatwave'

Tens of thousands of people were waiting for routine treatment in February

Tens of thousands of patients were waiting for routine treatment last month

Wigan Infirmary

A&E performance revealed

People are being reminded to use NHS111 online as their first point of contact for non-emergency medical advice over the Easter bank holiday

Easter holidays health contacts information

The NHS standard is for 95 per cent of patients to be seen within four hours. However, as part of a recovery plan, the health service aims for 78 per cent of patients to be seen within this time frame by March 2025

A&E missing examination targets

NHS England data shows 6,825 under 18s who sought NHS help with their mental health in the NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board area were still waiting for a first appointment following a referral as of the end of March last year

Long waits for children needing mental health help

NHS England figures show 50,630 patients were waiting for non-urgent elective operations or treatment at WWL facilities at the end of January – down slightly from 50,841 in December, and 54,481 in January 2024

The latest stats from our borough hospitals

NHS England figures show 29,175 women aged between 53 and 71 in Wigan underwent a breast screening in the three years to March – up from 26,742 in the three years to March 2023

Rise in the number of women going for breast scan

Only 720 of the 11,090 NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care Board patients with a referral for suspected autism that had been open longer than the recommended 13 weeks had an assessment within that time as of December

Autism testing targets missed in vast majority of cases

Young children and babies are at risk of suffering more serious symptoms of norovirus and can become dehydrated which may require medical treatment.

Parents warned not to send babies with these five symptoms to nursery

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