Nuffield Trust

Wigan Infirmary

Rise in hospital admissions for anxiety

Wigan Infirmary

How long patients were waiting for NHS treatment

Figures show Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust reported a £10.5m deficit in the 2023-24 financial year, meaning the trust's spending exceeded its income

WWL reports £10.5m deficit

Latest NHS England figures show there were 6,313 full-time equivalent staff at WWL sites as of September, including 610 FTE doctors and 1,723 FTE nurses and health visitors

Concerns over doctor and nurse ratios in local hospitals

Figures from the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities show 27.1 per cent of deaths in Wigan occurred at home in 2023: up from 23.8 per cent in 2019

Deaths at home are on the increase

Fewer treatments were outstanding for a year or longer

Fall in year-long waits for treatment at Wigan's hospitals

Thousands of patients are waiting months for an autism diagnosis in Greater Manchester

Thousands of people are waiting for an autism diagnosis

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

Fewer beds were occupied in Wigan's hospitals

Fewer beds occupied at Wigan's hospitals

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

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

Ambulances outside Wigan A&E

Dozens of extra hours spent in ambulances at Wigan's hospitals

NHS Digital figures show total expenditure on adult social care in Wigan was £161.7m in the year to March.

Wigan Council spends more than £165m on adult social care

Hospital staff are working through the backlog of patients waiting for treatment

More than 40,000 patients waiting for routine treatment at Wigan's hospitals

NHS111 waits were five times longer in September than they were five months earlier

Huge rise in Wigan NHS111 call waiting times

There have been far fewer funerals this year than last

Relief as Wigan death rates plummet
Far fewer Wigan lives have been lost year compared to last, latest figures show.
Patrick Jack

Coronavirus

‘Don’t let guard down’ plea as Wigan death rate falls

Ambulances outside Wigan Infirmary

Numbers waiting a year for operations in Wigan hits record high

The NHS is already short of over £1bn of funding ahead of winter

Reburbishment of ICU meant staff had no choice but to mix male and female patients

Wigan's hospital refurbishment led to breaches of mixed-sex ward rules

Wrightington Hospital

Hospital chiefs perform U-turn on planned land sale

The former Whelley Hospital after its closure

Hospital trust plans to sell off site for housing

Corridors had seemingly become "the new emergency wards"

Number of patients stuck on trolleys waiting for beds is 'going through the roof...

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