Health

Like most families, mine had its stories of lives cut short and blighted before the creation of the National Health Service.

On an average day at the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, four beds are occupied by patients who no longer need to stay in hospital, according to figures from NHS England.

I am a passionate supporter of the cornerstone principle of the NHS – that we pay our taxes and don’t have to fret about or fear the cost of being ill, as do so many people in America.

A quarter of pregnant women seen by the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust are obese at the time of their first screening.

Nearly two-thirds of patients in North Tyneside can see a GP outside of working hours seven days a week.

Doctors from North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) signed 70 fit notes, on average, every day in the last financial year, according to NHS figures.

A newly-qualified nurse has been honoured for her dedication to the profession.

The 70th birthday of the NHS has been toasted with a cuppa at a series of 1940s-themed tea dances at hospitals across North Tyneside and Northumberland.

Patients have rated care at North Tyneside General Hospital as among the best in the country, according to a national survey.

Hospitals in Northumberland and North Tyneside are to be upgraded and improved as part of a £150million investment by the NHS.

Happy 70th birthday greetings to our good old friend, the NHS, which is compassion in action.

Patients and staff at hospitals across North Tyneside and Northumberland are today holding birthday parties to celebrate 70 years of the NHS.

New figures show a new historic low for smoking in the North East – with smoking rates having nearly halved since 2005.

Smoking costs the North East £613.8million a year, according to new data from Action on Smoking Health.

New figures suggest nearly half a million adults in the North East are drinking enough alcohol to increase the health risks.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has the best A&E waiting times in the country with 98.8 per cent of patients being treated or admitted within the national four-hour standard.

North Tyneside General Hospital has been chosen by NHS North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) to host a new urgent care service.

Reducing the number of people going to A&E and treating sepsis are among the priorities this year for hospitals in Northumberland and North Tyneside.

Fewer than a quarter of complaints to the NHS trust running hospitals in Northumberland and North Tyneside were closed within the target of 35 days last year.