Gateshead Health NHS
We provide a wide range of acute, community and older peoples’ mental health services to our local community and beyond.
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust) is dedicated to delivering outstanding and compassionate care to our patients and communities. Based in the North East of England, we provide a comprehensive range of hospital, community, and older people’s mental health services to a local population of approximately 200,000, with specialist services extending across a much wider region.
We have been twice rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). View full report here
Our services
Our primary healthcare services are delivered across four key locations in Gateshead:
- Community Diagnostic Centre at the Metrocentre – newly opened in October 2024 to enhance diagnostic accessibility.
- Queen Elizabeth Hospital – our main acute hospital providing a wide range of specialist and general healthcare services.
- Bensham Hospital – offering rehabilitation, therapy-led services, and outpatient care.
- Blaydon Urgent Treatment Centre – providing urgent but non-life-threatening care to patients.
Beyond our local services, we provide specialist screening, gynaecology-oncology, pathology, and breast services across a wider geographic footprint, covering parts of the North East, Humberside, Cumbria, and Lancashire. We also operate one of the top ten IVF clinics in the country through the Gateshead Fertility Centre, helping to create hundreds of new families in the North East.
Our values
Innovation
We look for new ways to improve what we do and recognise that we all have a role to play in our continuous improvement.
Care
We care for our patients, community, each other and ourselves with kindness and compassion.
Openness
We always act with integrity and transparency and are open and honest with ourselves and each other.
Respect
We treat everyone with respect and dignity, creating a sense of belonging and inclusion.
Engagement
We are inclusive and collaborative in our approach, working as a team and with our partners to deliver the best care possible.
Gateshead Cares
Gateshead Cares is where health and care organisations come together to work different in order to achieve better health outcomes for people.
What Gateshead Cares is
Gateshead Cares is the collaborative term for the Gateshead health and care system.
The Trust is an active partner in the “Gateshead Cares” system board.
What the Gateshead Health and Care System is?
The Gateshead Health and Care System is a group of local organisations that come together on a regular basis to work differently together in order to achieve better outcomes for local people. This includes:
- Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Gateshead Council
- NHS North East and North Cumbria integrated care board (ICB)
- Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
- The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Community Based Care Health / Gateshead Federation of GP Practices
- Voluntary and Community Sector (Connected Voice and Healthwatch Gateshead)
Our Locations
We provide services in the hospital, the community and at people’s homes. The sites we operate from include Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon Urgent Treatment Centre and Bensham Hospital.
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust operates from a number of sites, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon Urgent Treatment Centre and Bensham Hospital, all of which are based in Gateshead.
Our state-of-the-art facilities include a £32m Emergency Care Centre, a £12m Pathology centre of excellence and the beautifully-designed Peter Smith Surgery Centre.