Rishi Sunak MP has enlisted the help of a highly-rated healthcare management consultancy firm to scrutinise plans for the future of the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton.

Minor injuries services at three Yorkshire Dales GP practices are to continue after health chiefs reconsidered a decision to cut their funding.

Dr Adrian Clements and Dr James Dunbar answer questions about changes to emergency services at the Friarage Hospital, Northallerton, at a public meeting held at Northallerton School and Sixth Form College on Friday, March 22, 2019

Regular readers will know it is very rare for me to write about the same topic two weeks in a row. But the Friarage remains our most important local issue and the one I am most focused on.

People will have the chance to question senior Friarage and Health Trust doctors about changes to emergency services at the North Yorkshire hospital.

I entirely share your concern about the recent announcement about critical care services at our local hospital, the Friarage in Northallerton.

Rishi Sunak MP has expressed his deep disappointment and frustration at temporary changes to the services provided by the Friarage Hospital, Northallerton.

Rishi Sunak has welcomed health chiefs scrapping a plan that could have seen a hospital used by many of his constituents downgraded.

An increase in the number of doctor training places which will mean more young medics working at Northallerton’s Friarage Hospital has been welcomed by Richmond MP Rishi Sunak.

Health chiefs have pledged to maintain local NHS dentistry funding and commission new providers in Catterick Garrison and Richmond following pressure from MP Rishi Sunak.