Newcastle Hospitals is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 15,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.6 billion.
The trust has a strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally.
Newcastle Hospitals is in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country. We support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
With over 6,500 patients contacts every day, we deliver high standards of healthcare from:
- Freeman Hospital
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Campus for Ageing and Vitality (former Newcastle General Hospital site)
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
- Cramlington Manor Walks
We are proud to nurture a culture of innovation and pioneering care. This is supported by a strong clinical research programme and state-of-the-art diagnostics in both radiology and pathology.
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, which is strengthened through our partnerships with:
- National Institute for Health Research
- Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria
- Northern Health Science Alliance
- Newcastle Health Innovation Partners (NHIP) – an Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) which brings together partners in health and care research, innovation, education and training.
NHIP is made up of:- Newcastle Hospitals
- Newcastle University
- Cumbria
- Northumberland
- Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
- Newcastle City Council and Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria.
- Northumbria University is also a highly-valued affiliate partner.
Our partnership working with Newcastle University focuses on key areas which are important to all our futures, including stem cell research, genetics, ageing and vitality.
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.
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).
Newcastle patients, both children and adults, were amongst the first in the world to receive CAR-T cell therapy. This marked a new era of personalised medicine for treating lymphoma and leukaemia.
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.
