Health innovation centre looks to future of NHS while celebrating its past

First building to open at Huddersfield's National Health Innovation Centre is named after NHS's first black matron

In a full-scale model of a house, a 50,000 mannequin that can breathe, blink and cough waits for the replica of an ambulance.

Eerily lifelike technology, some created by model makers who have made bodies" for the BBC's Silent Witness, is being used to tackle the scarcity of placement hours for healthcare students by combining real-world training with simulated settings, including virtual reality.