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.
Nantwich Concert Band has moved to a new home in the town after striking a chord with players from across South Cheshire.
The growing group is now staging weekly Wednesday rehearsals in the school hall at Highfields Academy, Cumberland Avenue, after out-growing its old base at Brookfield Hall, Shrewbridge Road.
A care home resident in Crewe has raised £176 for the Leighton Hospital Little Ones baby bereavement suite.
Alan Gibbs raised the money for the Mid Cheshire Hospitals Charity’s appeal by cycling the equivalent distance of Land’s End to John O’Groats.
Nantwich Town staged a Festival of Football to help celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Red Cross.
The event was supported by Nantwich Civic Hall and attended by Mayor of Nantwich, Councillor Arthur Moran.
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Hospital bosses in South Cheshire are determined to get to grips with an increasing demand for A&E as performance continues to decline.
Leighton Hospital’s A&E department had 700 more admissions in November 2019 than the same month in 2018, board members at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust were told today (January 6).
By Stephen Topping, local democracy reporter
Two Cheshire councils have agreed to work together to support a Sunday bus service connecting mid Cheshire to Leighton Hospital and Crewe from next February.
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