Health bosses are drawing up contingency plans to enable hospitals in Greater Manchester to return to 'normal business' - and cope with further waves of coronavirus cases.
More than 1,700 people have died at Greater Manchester's hospitals having contracting COVID-19. Those in charge have been forced to transform the way patients are treated in a bid to keep infection rates down.
At the start of the outbreak, measures included banning visitors from most sites; cancelling all non-urgent treatment indefinitely; and building a new field hospital - the NHS Nightingale North West.
As the infection and death rates begins to slow, health bosses are now drawing up plans to resume the day-to-day work of hospitals - around COVID-19.