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• Behind the scenes at our contact centre - meet Stuart, our patient care advisor

  Stuart is a patient care advisor based at our contact centre in Cobalt. He works within the Referral to Treatment (RTT) and Referral Management Service (RMS) teams which aim to improve patients’ access to healthcare.

• Communications director Ross Wigham talks about the different priorities during a busy time for healthcare services

  Communicating with our patients, parters and local communities is a key priority for us at Northumbria Healthcare, particularly at this time of year when health services tend to be much busier.

• Northumbria Healthcare introduces new campaign to warn of the dangers of using cocaine in pregnancy

  Northumbria Healthcare introduces new campaign to warn of the dangers of using cocaine in pregnancy A North East NHS trust is warning of the dangers of using cocaine in pregnancy after seeing a…

• Past and present staff gather to celebrate 30th anniversary of Wansbeck Hospital

  On Monday 5 June 2023, past and present staff from Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust gathered to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the opening of Wansbeck General Hospital in Ashington.

• Looking back at Northumbria in the news in 2023

  2023 may have been a tough year for the NHS, but that didn’t mean there weren’t positive stories and we had plenty to tell at Northumbria Healthcare.

• Smoking in pregnancy falls to record low of 3% at Northumbria Healthcare

  In 2025/26, 72% of women who engaged with the Best Start in Life pathway quit smoking - an improvement of 10% on the previous year.

• How we help people stay at home and out of hospital

  Wherever possible we try to care for people in their own homes or their communities. Here's the different ways we do it.

• NHS trust’s Community Promise underlines holistic approach to health and wellbeing

  A North East NHS trust continues to lead the way nationally with its focus on all the ways it can support the health and wellbeing of the communities it serves.

• Laura Smart is the cancer care coordinator for urology and here she explains a bit more about her role.

  Laura Smart is the cancer care coordinator for urology and here she explains a bit more about her role. My role is about coordinating the patient journey for anyone referred into hospital…

• Innovation all starts with an idea, no matter how big or small, and with having somewhere (or someone…) to be ‘a test-bed’ for ideas

  Innovation all starts with an idea, no matter how big or small, and with having somewhere (or someone…) to be ‘a test-bed’ for ideas In our latest ‘Inside…