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1. 1. GPs take control as health service prepares for change

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 03 February 2011 The most radical NHS reform in 60 years is now under way. Amanda Crook examines how the health revolution is beginning in Greater Manchester ...

2. 2. In depth - maternity service shake-up

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 03 August 2010 A new government and a baby boom could spell the end of a shake-up of maternity services. Amanda Crook looks at the case for and against ditching the plan ...

3. 3. Teaching the kids to quit

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 03 January 2006 SHOCKING figures reveal that 24 children in our region start smoking every day. Amanda Crook speaks to Jake Lee, a specialist smoking advisor, about the battle he wages trying to help young people to quit.

4. 4. Rooney kicks off fitness campaign

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 13 December 2005 UNITED and England hero Wayne Rooney has kick-started a campaign to get children off the sofa and onto the pitch - but will the nation's coach potatoes heed his keep fit message? Amanda Crook reports.

5. 5. DIY test for breast cancer that can fit in a lunch box

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 27 October 2010 A radical new portable breast scanner could soon allow women to undergo breast screening in their own home.

6. 6. Birthplace of NHS 'on road to recovery'

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 19 June 2008 THE hospital where the NHS was founded 60 years ago is back on the right track, according to Health Secretary Alan Johnson.

7. 7. Watchdog refuses to back inquiry into future of wards

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 18 December 2006 HOSPITAL bosses who were ordered to consult the public about the future of two wards have hit a gltch - a patients' watchdog has refused to back the consultation.

8. 8. Supermarket £12 flu jab fury

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 03 November 2006 A TOP doctor has condemned plans to sell flu jabs at a high street chemist and leading supermarket as "morally insupportable" while the NHS suffers from a shortage of the vaccine.

9. 9. Grandmother refused drug pays to go private

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 23 October 2006 A GRANDMA refused a vital lung cancer drug because she lives five miles outside Greater Manchester is beginning private treatment today.

10. 10. Trials to begin on vaccine that attacks cancer cells

    Manchester Evening News, Monday 13 November 2006 A MAJOR cancer vaccine that can trigger sufferers' immune systems to recognise and attack diseased cells is to be tested in Manchester.

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