Issues

Newcastle’s MP urges NHS to secure a full future for Bradwell Community Hospital

Newcastle’s MP Paul Farrelly has urged local NHS chiefs to commit to providing a full range of health services at Bradwell, including re-opening wards to rehabilitate patients after they leave the area’s main Royal Stoke University Hospital.

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NHS Long Term Plan Announcement

On Westminster’s return this week we had the long-awaited ‘NHS Long Term Plan’...

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UPDATE - closure of local NHS services

In the past few weeks, Paul has been pursuing the local NHS about to cuts to community hospitals and Better Care Funds, which have been happening (at the ultimate behest of NHS England) ahead of the submission of Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent’s so-called ‘Sustainability & Transformation Plan’ to the Government this week.

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‘Cuts for everyone, except for them’ – Newcastle MP reveals top NHS pay in Commons debate

Yesterday, the debate on NHS ‘Sustainability and Transformation Plans’ finally went ahead, on a Labour opposition motion, after being postponed last week. Sadly, deliberately rushed-out Government business truncated it to just three hours, as opposed to six.

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Cost-cutting driving latest NHS shake-up

In his latest column for the Sentinel, Paul addresses secrecy in the NHS and the problems being caused in our local health service as a result of government cutbacks.

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Newcastle MP slams Conservative bias over Council cuts

Labour MP Paul Farrelly has accused the government of blatant bias after it handed hundreds of millions of pounds to some of the wealthiest Conservative councils to ease the pain of spending cuts – but offered nothing to Labour-run local authorities like Newcastle and Stoke.

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MP slams government’s £30 billion ‘smash and grab’ on women’s pensions

Newcastle’s Labour MP, Paul Farrelly, has added his voice to the chorus of criticism over the government’s raid on women’s pensions, worth £30 billion to the Treasury’s coffers.

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Government abandons less well-off students with grants-to-loans, says Newcastle MP

?Government plans to abolish university grants for students from less well-off backgrounds have been condemned as ‘unfair and undemocratic’ by Newcastle’s Labour MP Paul Farrelly.

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MP backs campaign for life-saving defibrillators in Newcastle

Newcastle MP Paul Farrelly has pledged his support for a fund-raising campaign to provide a network of life-saving heart defibrillators in the Borough.

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Communities facing isolation as bus routes are axed, MP warns

Transport chiefs at Staffordshire County Council have been accused of being “economical with the truth” after withdrawing the financial support needed to sustain ‘vital’ bus routes.

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