Category: Health Advice

Health and wellbeing professionals – including physiotherapists and pharmacists – working in GP practices across Greater Manchester are speaking out to raise awareness of the different roles that now form part of the GP practice team.

The next phase of NHS Greater Manchester's Get To Know Where to Go campaign is promoting a newly-expanded service that provides urgent care and treatment to anyone experiencing emergency eye problems.

NHS Greater Manchester is signposting residents to its delirium advice leaflet which they have made accessible to even more people in the community by translating the information into a further six languages.

Since September 2019, over 9,000 Salford residents aged 55-74 with a history of smoking have attended a free NHS lung health check.

Women who’ve recently found out they’re pregnant are being urged to come forward and book in with a midwife for vital screening tests that are sometimes missed.

In Greater Manchester, more than 6,379 people are thought to be living with HIV, with an estimated 5% unaware of their status.  National HIV Testing Week promotes regular testing among the most affected population groups – helping to reduce the number of people living with undiagnosed HIV and those diagnosed late.