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Vaping

Secondary schools needed for NHS England’s smoking and vaping survey

Wigan Infirmary

Number of patients still in hospitals despite being fit to leave is revealed

Wrightington Hospital

Surgical Hub at Wrightington Hospital achieves accreditation

Every region across the country saw a rise in the number of complaints made against dentists

Complaints against GP and dental practices soar following pandemic

Wigan Infirmary's A&E unit

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

Tens of thousands of patients were waiting for routine treatment in Wigan in August

Rising number of patients waiting for routine treatment from Wigan's hospitals

NHS England figures show patients did not attend 46,980 outpatient appointments at Wigan's hospitals in 2022-23 – up from 45,950 the year before

Tens of thousands of missed outpatient appointments

Wigan Infirmary's A&E unit

Long wait for a bed for emergency patients being admitted to Wigan's hospitals

CGI of what the new Endoscopy unit extension could look at Wigan Infirmary

Hospital trust lands £11.9m for two new developments to cut waiting times

Junior doctor Joe Harris on the picket line outside Wigan Infirmary earlier this year

'Disruption' expected at hospitals as junior doctors and consultants strike

Wigan Infirmary's A&E unit

Busy summer as A&E patients still face long waits to be seen at Wigan Infirmary

Harriet Moxon with her five-year-old daughter Eve. Photo by Charlotte Ridgeon (Harriet's twin sister).

Mum says she's lucky to be alive after being hit by a car on holiday

Premier Health Team achieved 76 per cent of very good ratings by patients.

Family doctors: the 12 general practices with the best borough patient ratings

A nurse prepares a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.

Covid and flu jabs to be brought forward over emergence of new variant

Patients are being urged to order their repeat prescriptions now

Patients urged to order repeat prescriptions before bank holiday weekend

Tens of thousands of patients were waiting for routine treatment

Rising number of patients waiting for routine treatment at Wigan's hospitals
Tens of thousands of patients were waiting for routine treatment at Wigan’s hospitals in June, figures show.

NHS England figures for the former NHS Wigan Borough CCG show 325 of 3,065 mothers were smokers (10.6 per cent) at time of delivery in 2022-23.

One in 10 pregnant women in Wigan were smokers when they gave birth

Tens of thousands of patients were waiting for routine treatment at Wigan's hospitals in May

Tens of thousands of patients waiting for routine treatment at Wigan's hospitals

Wigan Infirmary

Drop in visits to Wigan's A&E units last month

Zaman based at Worsley Mesnes Health centre was rated 97 per cent for overall patient experience
Marus Bridge based at Chandler House was rated 94 per cent

The best-rated GP surgeries

Figures from NHS England show, as of December, 62,710 people across both age groups in Wigan had been screened within that time frame.

Cervical Screening Week: uptake falls in Wigan

Fewer beds were occupied in Wigan's hospitals

Fewer beds occupied at Wigan's hospitals

Tens of thousands of patients are waiting for treatment

Tens of thousands of patients waiting for treatment at Wigan's hospitals

Wigan Infirmary's A&E unit

Rise in visits to Wigan's casualty departments

The Patients Association says mixed-sex wards are "an affront to patients' dignity", claiming the stress they cause prohibits a strong recovery.

Single-sex ward rule upheld at Wigan's hospitals

Wigan Infirmary

Several patients wait 18 months for treatment at Wigan's hospitals

More than 35,000 incidents of sexual misconduct or sexual violence were recorded in NHS England in the five years between 2017 and 2022.

35,000+ incidents of sexual violence recorded in NHS England 2017-2022
More than 35,000 incidents of sexual misconduct or sexual violence were recorded in NHS England in the five years between 2017 and 2022.

The figures cover how any people were detained under the Mental Health Act

Black patients more than three times as likely as white patients to be detained

Figures from NHS England show 83,841 fit notes were provided by GPs in the former NHS Wigan Borough CCG area in 2022

Tens of thousands of GP sick notes given out in Wigan in 2022

Wigan Infirmary

Busy month for Wigan's hospitals with 20 per cent more patients visiting A&E

Wigan Infirmary's A&E unit

Number of 12-hour waits faced by patients at Wigan's A&E revealed for first time

Junior doctor Joe Harris on the picket line outside Wigan Infirmary

Junior doctors make up half of medics at Wigan's hospitals

Figures show that 3,760 prescriptions for orlistat were handed out by GPs in the former NHS Wigan Borough CCG area throughout 2022 at a total cost of £95,800 to the NHS.

Thousands of people in Wigan prescribed anti-obesity drug

It is three years since then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson put the country into lockdown

Coronavirus pandemic: The impact on Wigan three years on

Figures show 6.3 per cent of residents in Wigan said they were in "bad or very bad" general health in the 2021 census

More than one in 20 Wigan residents in poor health

Patients face long waits to be admitted to a bed

Hundreds of patients forced to wait more than 12 hours for a hospital bed

The Royal College of Surgeons of England said no surgeon wants to cancel operations, but high demand and the lack of social care leading to a delay in discharging patients has made this impossible.

Wigan's hospitals saw fewer operations cancelled than in the year before

Wigan Infirmary

Waiting times for routine treatment increase for patients at Wigan's hospitals

Wigan Infirmary

Attendances drop at Wigan's A&E unit amid huge demand and strikes

Wigan Infirmary

Demand from extra patients led to long waits and 'critical incident' at A&E

DanceSyndrome

DanceSyndrome: charity giving those with disabilities the chance to dance

Nearly a quarter of Wigan's ambulance patients waited for at least an hour

Nearly a quarter of ambulance patients waited more than an hour at hospitals

Wigan Infirmary

Long waits at Wigan's A&E as fewer than half of patients seen in four hours

Wigan Infirmary

More than 100 'bed blockers' in hospital every day on average

The MMR jab protects against measles, mumps and rubella

Parents urged to get their children vaccinated as MMR jab coverage behind target

Wigan Infirmary

Drop in patient numbers at Wigan's busy A&E departments

A Covid-19 booster programme is under way aimed at curbing further waves

Wigan Infirmary is currently caring for 24 Covid-19 patients

Wigan Infirmary

Fewer visits to Wigan's casualty departments - but still long waits to be seen

The survey found that 32.6 per cent of people with long-term health conditions do not feel they have had enough support from local services – up from 24.4 last year

Satisfaction with GPs lowest since at least 2018

Wigan Infirmary

Two-year waits at Wigan's hospitals down by more than 90 per cent

There are still thousands of unvaccinated people in Wigan

Covid: Thousands still unvaccinated in Wigan

It was another busy month at Wigan Infirmary's A&E department

More than 1,000 casualty patients face long waits for beds at Wigan's hospitals

Autism is a lifelong condition which impacts how people communicate and interact with the world.

Ten face long waits for autism diagnosis in Wigan

Of the 840 births recorded in Wigan in 2020-21, 30.4 per cent were delivered by C-section.

C-sections make up nearly a third of Wigan births

Mixed-sex ward rules were broken

Wigan's hospital trust breaks single sex ward rules