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 in London, where he was a specialist registrar in intensive care medicine.

He began his career in Rangoon, Burma at a teaching hospital, and 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.