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At a time of ongoing national NHS staff shortages, the University of Sunderland hopes to boost north-east healthcare by developing a highly-skilled workforce through its Higher and Degree Apprenticeship programmes.

Consultants who have almost 200 years of experience between them have bid farewell to their service as they begin their retirement.

A competition is challenging people to use their creative side to come up with an artwork to represent the impact of conditions on the brain.

Parents and carers are being urged to get their children vaccinated after UK health experts warn of the “real risk" of a measles outbreak.

A doctor who stopped at the scene of a crash has been praised for her quick-thinking actions to help treat a seriously injured motorcyclist.