Gill Dummigan

The trust has apologised to patients and said it will be restarting next week, working through the backlog.

EXCLUSIVE Hundreds of orthopaedic patients at Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge Hospitals haven’t been able to get surgery since October. watch BBC North West Today at 1330 to find out why.

Staff working very hard in all hospitals to help patients stay out - with innovative home support packages. But with record waits at A&E to be admitted, we could be in for another rough winter. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

EXCLUSIVE: Historical corporate failings at Blackpool Victoria Hospital being investigated by Lancashire Police bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@ellymoritz Well done Elly! 👏👏👏 What a fantastic achievement! You must be really proud.

That was a brutal second (and probably last) marathon. Far too hot and running with a painful injury. So ended up slow but at least I finished. I think that’s what most people felt like today. Really well done to everyone who took part.

@claregavo87 Hi Clare. Do you want to dm me your email address?

@MsGillD Can you assist with awareness of an NHS surgeon mentally abusing his patients by cancelling life changing surgery, after being on his waiting list for over a year, as he's choosing to work overseas instead.

EXCLUSIVE Lancs Police have wound down the active investigation into the killing of stroke patient Valerie Kneale at Blackpool Victoria Hospital in 2018. They say it will be regularly reviewed, they still hope for more information and their thoughts remain with her family.

“I love my children so much and I want to see them grow up” NHS announces review of a treatment for stage four eye cancer - but not in time for Trafford mum Hannah Quigley Mckie who has to raise £180,000 to fund her own. More ⁦@BBCNWT⁩ tonight at 6.30 ⁦⁦@OcuMelUK⁩

“We’re seeing an impact on young people’s mental health, depression and loneliness” Lancashire’s Director of Public Health says some health inequalities are worse now for the region than before Covid bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@RossNieuwoudt Hi Dr Nieuwoudt Would you be able to DM me a contact number/email address please for a quick chat? Thanks

So why is this happening? Today figures came out which show that 60% of patients who were medically fit to leave hospital at the end of January didn’t. Pointing to issues with social and community care.

@LouiseHarman I’m really sorry to hear that Louise. Do you want to DM me your contact details?

@MsGillD @BBCNWT Hi Gill. My 88 year old nan has been on the corridor at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan, for over 40 hours. This cannot continue. The staff try their best, but it is traumatic @Keir_Starmer @lisanandy @wesstreeting

EXCLUSIVE: The crisis in our A&Es. We’ve discovered that last year in the NW nearly 39,000 patients waited longer than 24 hours for a bed in a ward. Hundreds waited longer than four days. More on ⁦@BBCNWT⁩ at lunchtime and 6.30. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Find out more on @BBCNWT at 1330 and 1830

EXCLUSIVE. The organisation which funds healthcare in Lancashire and South Cumbria plus three hospital trusts have been put in the equivalent of financial “special measures” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Happy New Year! Back for first 1830 @BBCNWT of 2025. Graph ⬇️ shows North West Tonight has completed FOUR consecutive years, month-after-month, with the highest Audience Appreciation of all BBC News output. Thank you, as always, for watching and best wishes from all the team.

In other words, last month a fairly small hospital in Greater Manchester had 28 times the number of people waiting >12 hours to be admitted compared to the whole of England in 2015 (ends)

In Tameside Hospital in Greater Manchester this happened to 46% of the patients who were admitted last month - 805 people out of 1,763. (3/4)

In December 2015 in England NHS figures show 29 patients waited longer than 12 hours to be admitted to hospital from A&E Last month that figure was 54,207 (1/4)