A HOSPITAL trust is welcoming three new non-executive directors to its board.

Pauline Singleton, Ian Grieve and Jean Cockerill have been appointed to the board of South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust and will serve for four years.

The board provides strategic direction to the trust and Mr Grieve is a former chairman of South Tees Community Health Council.

Recently-retired teacher Mrs Singleton has worked in senior management teams at local schools.

A teacher for more than 34 years, she has been a member of two groups which have the job of consulting with patients and local people on health issues.

Fitness training and football enthusiast Miss Cockerill is a management consultant who has worked in the North-East since leaving university, mainly in the private sector.