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A Sunderland cancer nurse has received national recognition after being named the winner of the Prostate Cancer UK and British Association of Urological Nurses (BAUN) People’s Choice Award.

Heartburn Health is visiting Sunderland and Washington, as well as areas of County Durham.

An NHS worker who battled stage 4 cancer while training to become a nurse has officially qualified and returned to the NHS frontline. 55 year old Maggie Bennett, from Hetton-le-Hole, has become a newly qualified Staff Nurse at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust after overcoming a series of life changing personal challenges.

A group of cancer patients are helping reshape support services across Sunderland and South Tyneside by turning their own experiences into action.

The first specialists trained in Sunderland as part of a groundbreaking training course are now set to put their skills to use following their graduation.