Tyne Tees Health

A hospice providing vital end of life care is warning services could be lost without urgent intervention as financial pressures continue to grow.

The NHS says hundreds of lives have been saved in the North East since lung health checks were introduced for smokers and former smokers in 2021.

Lucy Pearson, 37, was found dead after going missing from the psychiatric hospital where she was being treated for post-natal depression after her second child.