Councillors have heaped praise on plans to create Northumberland's first specialist dementia care service for patients with complex behaviour.
At Tuesday's meeting of Northumberland County Council's cabinet, members were presented with a report explaining how the new 12-bed service would be created at an existing care home, using money from the existing budget.
The meeting heard that dementia was one of the biggest pressures on the county's care system, with no specialist care service currently available in the county.
