A new satellite testing centre is now open at Leighton Hospital for swab testing a wider group of key workers showing signs of Coronavirus.
The centre will also be available to key workers living in a household with others who have symptoms.
An NHS worker has died of the COVID-19 virus in Leighton Hospital, Mid Cheshire Hospitals chiefs have confirmed.
Brian Darlington, a long-serving porter with Mid Cheshire Hospitals, passed away after testing positive for Coronavirus.
Thirty-six people have died from COVID-19 virus at Leighton Hospital, latest Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust figures today show.
Local volunteers are making and sourcing scrubs for NHS staff in South Cheshire helping COVID-19 patients.
The group, coordinated by volunteers including Emma Dalzell, has set up a Facebook group with many helpers from Nantwich, Crewe and Middlewich who are sewing and making new scrubs.
Two more patients have died at Leighton Hospital after contracting COVID-19, health chiefs have confirmed.
It brings the total to four people who have died from the virus.
Visiting hours at Leighton Hospital have been restricted as health bosses respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust says it has followed national guidance in putting temporary restrictions in place for patient visitors.
A second person has died at Leighton Hospital after testing positive for Coronavirus, officials have confirmed.
A Leighton Hospital patient who tested positive for COVID-19 has died, the hospital trust confirmed today.
The man, who was in his 60s, had underlying health conditions.
More events across Cheshire are being postponed as organisers respond to the Coronavirus crisis.
Today, organisers of the Taste Cheshire Food and Drink Festival have announced they are postponing this year’s Easter event.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Health chiefs in Cheshire are eager to get patients treated in the right place and relieve pressure on hospitals.
Key NHS figures from across the county spoke out about the challenges they face and their ambitions at a Cheshire East Council meeting.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Leighton Hospital bosses expect to fork out more than £800,000 by April 1 after on-site laundry equipment broke down in January.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which also runs Victoria Infirmary in Northwich and Elmhurst in Winsford, is now having to outsource its laundry services.
Portable suction devices are helping to keep Leighton Hospital patients active without slowing down their recovery.
A serious road collision outside Leighton Hospital has resulted in long delays today (February 6)
The incident happened on the A530 Middlewich Road by the turn in for the Leighton Hospital treatment centre.
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