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1. 61. New children’s hospital so popular it's struggling to cope with patient surge

   Manchester Evening News, Monday 20 December 2010 Medics say families are driving past other perfectly good hospitals to get to the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. They fear children needing specialist treatment could lose out on a bed because its popularity means all spaces are taken.

2. 62. Hospital staff offered a pay-off if they resign their jobs

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 18 February 2011 All 8,000 staff at Central Manchester Hospitals can apply for the ‘mutual resignation’ scheme before March as bosses try to cut their workforce over the next four years.

3. 63. Hospital is ‘second-worst debtor’

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 14 October 2010 Trafford Healthcare trust, which runs Trafford General – the NHS’s birthplace – was one of only 10 hospitals in the country not to balance its books last year.

4. 64. Health chiefs promise to listen to public on A&E closure

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 04 November 2010 Casualty departments in three Greater Manchester hospitals will not be axed without public consultation, health chiefs have promised.

5. 65. Protest in Rochdale as A&E department to close doors in 10 days’ time

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 25 March 2011 Paramedics have been taking people with serious illness and injuries to neighbouring hospitals at night-time since August after hospital bosses failed to recruit enough emergency doctors.

6. 66. Macmillan: Cancer patients wrongly paying for drugs because doctors haven't told them prescriptions are free

   Manchester Evening News, Wednesday 06 April 2011 Cancer patients are paying for their medicines – because they are not being told by hospital doctors they can get free prescriptions. A report by Macmillan Cancer Support revealed that more than a third of cancer patients at Pennine Acute Trust – which runs hospitals in Rochdale, Bury, Oldham and North Manchester – were not told they could get free drugs because of their illness.

7. 67. Blackout clinics to go nationwide

   Manchester Evening News, Friday 03 September 2010 A pioneering Manchester clinic which investigates why people suffer blackouts is to be copied at hospitals across the country.

8. 68. NHS bosses buying porn magazines to help IVF dads

   Manchester Evening News, Thursday 09 September 2010 Central Manchester Hospitals – which runs St Mary’s Hospital – is one of 33 trusts in England which provide men with porn to help them produce sperm samples for IVF treatment.

9. 69. Pennine Acute slashes £700,000 from translation bill

   Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 11 January 2011 Pennine Acute, which runs hospitals in Bury, Rochdale, North Manchester and Oldham, paid more than £1m in 2007 for translation services.

10. 70. New major trauma network will save 20 lives per year

    Manchester Evening News, Tuesday 22 May 2012 The lives of 20 seriously injured patients who are rushed to hospital will be saved every year because of a new shake-up, health bosses have claimed.

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