NHS Grampian has approved a £163m project to build two new health centres in Aberdeen.

The new Baird Family Hospital and ANCHOR Centre will be based on the site of the Foresterhill Health Campus.

It is hoped that the new facilities will help modernise patient care and facilities, with the main construction programme commencing in spring 2019.

Project director for NHS Grampian, Jackie Bremner, said: "This is a very exciting and important milestone which will allow the project to move one step closer to becoming a reality.

"It is also the result of three years of hard work which has involved hundreds of people including clinical staff, patients, members of the public, designers and construction colleagues.

"It is starting to feel real now - in a year or so these magnificent new facilities, which will benefit patients and their families for many years to come, will have begun to take shape."