21.   HEALTH chiefs are denying that taking critically injured patients from East Belfast to the Royal Victoria Hospital is a bridge too far.

22.   She teaches literacy, numeracy and music to a variety of patients from the centre, and has set up a small bible group with the chaplain.

23.   A patient from a Middlesbrough intensive care ward was transferred to North Tees General Hospital, Stockton, at the weekend because the bed was needed for another patient.

24.   Facilities will be available for NHS and private patients from North Yorkshire and Teesside as well as County Durham.

25.   The equipment can identify brain tumours and liver complaints much earlier than conventional x-rays and will spare patients from travelling to Newcastle or Teesside for tests.

26.   AN IMPROVED service has been promised to patients from doctors and hospitals throughout South Durham.

27.   He said some patients from Darlington and York would move to the Friarage and a review of beds for elderly patients throughout the district was being carried out.

28.   It promises a state of the art hospital which would serve the local community and draw patients from around Britain and abroad.

29.   But patients from all over the country are to be considered for the trials, mostly after referral from their GP or from other eye hospitals.