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.

RICHMOND MP Rishi Sunak has written to NHS dentistry chiefs urging them to plug a gap in NHS provision in Catterick Garrison and Richmond.

EFFORTS to train more doctors at the Friarage Hospital, Northallerton, and help to sustain its long-term future have been backed by Richmond MP Rishi Sunak.

The MP has written to national education chiefs lending his support to local medical schools' plans to expand.

Rishi Sunak has urged his constituents to make good use of their local pharmacist this winter.

The Richmond MP’s mother was a NHS pharmacist helping thousands of patients during her long career running the pharmacy alongside his father’s GP practice.

Richmond MP Rishi Sunak has written to the boss of the NHS calling for incentives to help recruit desperately-needed doctors at the Friarage Hospital, Northallerton.

Richmond MP Rishi Sunak has urged his constituents to join a conversation about the future of emergency care services at the Friarage Hospital, Northallerton.

Rishi Sunak joined a celebration to mark the start of building work on the £10m Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Centre at the Friarage Hospital, Northallerton, as part of the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning.

Health chiefs have provided details of the new community health services that would replace wards at the Friarage Hospital, if a proposed re-organisation goes ahead.