Royal Oldham Hospital Accident and Emergency Department
Nearly 200 people waited over 12 hours for a bed at A&E departments run by Pennine Acute Trust last month, the highest figures in the North West.
In December 2020, 199 patients at Pennine Acute hospitals waited over 12 hours for a bed. Previous figures recorded 337 (November) and 200 (October) – both of which were the highest in the country for those months.
Pennine Acute hospitals with emergency departments include Fairfield General Hospital and The Royal Oldham Hospital but the data also includes North Manchester General which is now operated by the Manchester University Foundation Trust.
Having previously had more patients waiting this length of time than anywhere else in the country for the prior two months, Pennine has now dropped to experiencing the fifth highest figure nationally. This rose as high as 611 patients for one NHS trust based in London, the highest in the country for December 2020.
CASH: The old courthouse AN extra cash handout has been approved to ensure Bury s former courthouse is redeveloped. The Bury Times reported last October how a loan of £3.95m had been agreed by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority for the Tenterden Street complex. Councillors sitting on the GMCA s local enterprise partnership panel have now been told that further due diligence has been carried out concerning the regeneration proposals. And now an additional £31,000 has been sought by Jubilee Way Estates, a venture established by Graham Cowand and Hyman Weiss, registered to Heaton House, in Bury Old Road, Crumpsall, and approved by the panel.
MAJOR plans for more than 500 homes, a new link road and a local centre with shops, offices and community spaces have been given the green light. Two housing developments have been approved at North Leigh Park off Nel Pan Lane as part of a scheme which could see 1,800 new homes built in total. A new road linking Leigh Road to Atherleigh Way has also been given the go ahead together with permission in principle for a new mixed-use local centre. Countryside Properties applied to build 507 houses spread over two parcels of land which have both been earmarked for development by the council.
Rochdale BID asks for donations of digital equipment for pupils in need Date published: 20 January 2021
Rochdale BID is asking for your unused equipment to help local school children
Following the closure of schools and colleges due to the national lockdown, Rochdale BID is asking for your unused equipment to help those pupils still in need.
Rochdale Town Centre Businesses Improvement District (BID) is keen to help the next generation of local entrepreneurs, business owners, key workers, and scientists as ‘everyone deserves a good education whatever the circumstances’.
Paul Ambrose, Business Improvement District Manager, said: “The quality of education in Rochdale is fantastic but we know that home schooling is particularly challenging for the most disadvantaged in our surrounding local communities who all too often fall on the wrong side of the digital divide.