Residents from Salford and the surrounding area can now conveniently access a range of diagnostic testing, at the Salford Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) which opens to NHS patients on 9 October.
The first patient in the UK has been treated with a pioneering new investigational gene therapy designed to treat the debilitating genetic disorder Gaucher disease.
Experts at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) say the research study is a major milestone for the inherited condition.