A NORTHALLERTON doctor has been appointed as a consultant with a Cleveland health trust.

Dr Joe Tint has joined North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust as a consultant anaesthetist.

He will work at hospitals in Stockton and Hartlepool in general anaesthetics and intensive care.

Dr Tint moved to the North-East from St Thomas' Hospital, London, where he was a specialist registrar in intensive care medicine.

He began his career in Rangoon, Burma, at one of the biggest teaching hospitals in the country. He also worked at a Burmese military training camp, where he gained experience in serious conditions, such as malaria.

He and his wife, May, have two teenage children and in his spare time he enjoys golf and badminton.