Freeman Hospital

Name :

Freeman Hospital

Address  :

Freeman Road
High Heaton

Town  :

Newcastle Upon Tyne

State  :

Tyne and Wear

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

NE7 7DN

Phone  :

0191 233 6161

Web URL  :


Description

As part of the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust we deliver a wide range of advanced patientfocused healthcare to patients from Newcastle the North East and beyond Our services at the Freeman Hospital range from general surgery hip and knee replacement and digital hearing aids through to the latest developments in restoring hearing or treating complex liver pancreatic and kidney diseases

Were a regional urology centre recognised as having one of the top clinical research programmes in Europe and have one of the few specialist sleep studies teams in the UK caring for patients with a wide range of sleeping disorders

The Freeman has a welldeserved reputation for the quality of its facilities and we take great care to ensure you are treated in a clean modern and friendly environment As part of the pound300m we are investing in transforming our city centre hospitals and are building a state of the art centre at the Freeman Hospital for the care of patients with cancer and kidney disorders
Hospital discharge criticism

The Care Quality Commission CQC which is responsible for reviewing practices at health providers across the UK raised concerns over the hospitals ability to coordinate care for patients when they are discharged to other services The review was designed to see what progress had been made since concerns were first outlined last year The CQC rep... Read More

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More kids are landing in the emergency room after swallowing coinsized button batteries There were nearly 66000 batteryrelated hospital visits by children under 18 between 1990 and 2009 and the annual number more than doubled jumping from 2591 to 5525 Thats according to a new study published today in Pediatrics The situation is worst for children 5... Read More