Our teams of clinical experts have an international reputation for pioneering and high quality services, ranging from joint replacement, to heart and chest surgery, innovative cancer care and multi-organ transplantation. Our specialists also offer innovative treatments for complex liver, pancreatic, kidney, lung and heart diseases.
The Freeman’s cardiothoracic centre is a regional, national and internationally centre of excellence for lung and heart care. It provides a full range of specialist intervention and surgery for adults and children under one roof.
With several decades’ experience in adult transplants for heart, lungs, liver, kidneys and pancreas, our Institute of Transplantation, is one of the most experienced and successful solid organ transplant centres, and the first of its kind, in the UK.
Our Northern Centre for Cancer Care is the largest of its kind in the north of England, providing state-of-the-art cancer care for the people of Newcastle and beyond, as well as world-leading clinical research.
The Sir Bobby Robson Cancer Trials Research Centre is at the forefront of research into cancer, offering patients access to early trials and potential new treatments.
The Freeman Hospital is also home to the region’s specialist renal services centre.
Both the Newcastle Surgical Training Centre and the simulation (SIM) centre at Freeman Hospital provide high-quality training to clinicians from across the UK and Europe.
In September 2022, our new purpose-built day treatment centre opened, providing space for thousands more operations and procedures, helping to tackle waiting list pressures.
You can find a detailed access guide for the Freeman Hospital on the AccessAble website.
