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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.

Patients in Newcastle are better able than ever to see a doctor, with the majority of GPs in Newcastle now opening for longer hours.