Newcastle Hospitals is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.
With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.
As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
Our clinical services are structured and organised through eight clinical boards:
- Family health
- Medicine and emergency care
- Surgical and specialist services (mainly RVI)
- Surgical and associated services (mainly Freeman)
- Perioperative and critical care
- Cancer and haematology
- Cardiothoracic services
- Clinical and research services
Each board has responsibility for strategy, performance, workforce and finance in their area, covering a range of specialities and sub-specialities.
Leaders in research, development and pioneering treatments
As leaders in healthcare research and development across a wide range of specialisms, we deliver benefits not only for today’s patients but for generations to come.
Much of our clinical work and services are underpinned by a world-class programme of research and innovation.
Much of our research is only possible through the important partnerships we also have with patients, other NHS organisations, universities, the local authority and charitable bodies.
Our partnership with Newcastle University focuses on key areas which are important to all our futures, including stem cell research, genetics, ageing and vitality.
Through our strong focus on clinical research, we are able to stay the forefront of pioneering treatments, such as transplantation, mitochondrial donation at the Newcastle Fertility Centre – a form of IVF in which the future baby’s mitochondrial DNA comes from a donor egg to avoid inherited diseases – and PrEP (Pre-exposure prophylaxis, a drug to prevent HIV).
Diagnostic innovators
Newcastle Hospitals belongs to the north east’s NIHR Healthtech Research Centre (HRCs). We work with Diagnostics North East as part of a strategic partnership bringing together the various components of a unique and innovative infrastructure to aid diagnostic development for industry and academia.
Through our North East Innovation Lab, we work with developers from across the world to evaluate and validate new diagnostic products. This includes assessing their performance using our extensive biobank of clinical samples, on their journey to mainstream use.
The NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in Ageing & Long-Conditions continues to provide infrastructure for a volume of leading edge research in ageing and long-term conditions.
