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North Tyneside General Hospital

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Care system
  
Public NHS

Lists
  
Hospitals in England

Founded
  
1984

Hospital type
  
District General

Phone
  
+44 344 811 8111

North Tyneside General Hospital

Location
  
North Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom

Emergency department
  
No Accident & Emergency

Address
  
Rake Ln, North Shields NE29 8NH, UK

Similar
  
Wansbeck General Hospital, Royal Victoria Infirmary, University Hospital of North Tees, Newcastle General Hospital, Cumberland Infirmary

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North Tyneside General Hospital is part of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital is situated on the A191 in North Shields and is the largest of the Trust's three general hospitals.

Contents

North Tyneside is a district general hospital with 24 hour walk-in services for urgent care, full range of diagnostic testing, outpatient clinics covering a range of specialties, as well as facilities for care of the elderly.

Couple undergo lifechanging surgery at north tyneside general hospital


History

It was built between 1984 and 1996 with gradual extensions, and replaced several other hospitals including the Tynemouth Infirmary and Preston Hospital. It is often referred to locally as the Rake Lane Hospital.

It serves a population of about 250,000 in North Tyneside and Northumberland.

The hospital's Accident and Emergency Department is now a 24-hour walk-in centre, following the opening of the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in 2015.

Current services

Services on this site include:

  • 24 hour walk-in services for urgent care
  • General Medicine
  • General Surgery
  • Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Care of the Elderly
  • Maternity
  • Psychiatry
  • Gynaecology
  • Oncology
  • Paediatrics
  • Intensive Care Unit
  • Coronary Care Unit
  • High Dependency Unit
  • Patients requiring maxillofacial, burn and plastic specialist surgery are generally referred to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne. Patients requiring neuro-surgical care are usually referred to Newcastle General Hospital. Patients requiring Urology and Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) specialities are generally referred to the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle.

    References

    North Tyneside General Hospital Wikipedia