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Secretary of State for Health Andrew Lansley is to look at the circumstances surrounding the planned closure of Newcastle-under-Lyme’s popular High Street Medical Practice following an intervention by the town’s MP in parliament today.

The boards running Staffordshire’s three NHS primary care trusts have been abolished 18 months early, pre-empting Parliament and provoking fresh controversy over the Government’s top-down health reforms.

Waiting lists for hospital treatment in North Staffordshire rose sharply during the first year of the coalition government, prompting accusations by Newcastle’s Labour MP Paul Farrelly that “the NHS is at serious risk under the Tories.”

Paul Farrelly MP last night showed his commitment to ensuring that people with a learning disability get the healthcare they have a right to by signing Mencap’s ‘Getting it right’ charter.

Innovative classes that help expectant fathers to play a bigger role in the birth of their babies have earned maternity staff in North Staffordshire a national award.

A new NHS dentistry practice will be opening its doors to up to 8,000 patients in Newcastle this summer following a three-year campaign by local MP Paul Farrelly.

Former miners in North Staffordshire and across the country are to get extra help from the government for injuries suffered in dangerous work down the pit.

Newcastle MP Paul Farrelly has given his support to an initiative by health chiefs to promote oral hygiene as part of his campaign to increase NHS dentistry.

Health chiefs were accused by Newcastle MP Paul Farrelly today of ignoring public opinion by rejecting his calls to fund fertility treatment on behalf of childless couples.

A new health and well-being centre that will allow patients more personalised service and greater access to a GP is to be opened in the centre of Newcastle.