What we do

The Northern Region Gender Dysphoria Service is a service for people who experience persistent confusion and/or discomfort as a result of a discrepancy between their assigned sex and their gender identity. This includes people who want to change physical aspects of their gender as well as those who do not.

The health visitor’s role starts during pregnancy and continues to offer support through the first few weeks after the birth and all the way through until early childhood.

All health visitors are nurses or midwives with specialist training in family and community health. They work with parents and their families to improve health and wellbeing.

The health visitor’s role starts during pregnancy and continues to offer support through the first few weeks after the birth, and all the way through until early childhood.

All health visitors are nurses or midwives with specialist training in family and community health. They work with parents and families to improve health and wellbeing.

The health visitors are part of a team that includes staff nurses and community nursery nurses.

Our orthodontics service cares for patients who need a brace fitted to help their teeth to move. We have specialist doctors who examine teeth that are not in the correct position (malocclusions).

We have specialist clinics for patients who require treatment for:

Our vital service is available at no cost to families. Rainbow Trust is a charity, relying almost entirely on voluntary donations and the generosity of the public to deliver support.

Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity supports families who have a child aged 0-18 years with a life-threatening or terminal illness.

We are a warm, caring and kind place because:

• We offer small group work and activities
• Parents/carers can discuss individual needs prior to visiting

Medequip Connect is a nationally based organisation who currently provide services to over 10,000 people nationwide. Our objective is to be of benefit to the community and in particular to provide reassurance and support to older, disabled or vulnerable people allowing them to remain safely in their own home. We operate in areas throughout the United Kingdom and offer specialist responder services in Cumbria, Suffolk and Oxfordshire

The Oral Healthcare Unit is based at the Freeman Hospital and provides specialist oral healthcare and advice for child and adult patients with congenital heart disease – this includes patients who require, or have had a heart transplant.

Our expertise is recognised across the region for our skills, facilities and specialist services. We provide a range of emergency and non-emergency services for both children and adults, these include:

A cleft lip is a gap in the upper lip and a cleft palate is a gap in the roof of the mouth.

We also see people who may be experiencing speech problems related to how well their palate is working for speech even when there is no obvious cleft palate.

Our service is operated by an experienced team of specialists from a range of clinical disciplines, including:

If you have a condition affecting your mouth, jaw, neck, cheekbones, forehead or face you will be seen by a member of our specialist oral and maxillofacial surgery team.

You may also be referred to us if via our Emergency Department (A&E) if you have a facial injury, and require further treatment or reconstructive surgery.

You will be referred to one of our specialist clinics if you:

Newcastle’s Endocrine surgery department provides first-class care for patients who need surgical treatment for benign and malignant conditions affecting the thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands.

The team looks after both adults and children, and works closely alongside endocrinologists, ENT surgeons, oncologists (cancer specialists), radiologists and pathologists, and our clinical nurse specialists. This multidisciplinary approach ensures each patient we see is provided with a treatment pathway tailored to their particular condition.

Antenatal refers to the period of time from when you get pregnant up to the point you go into labour. Regular antenatal appointments help us to ensure that you and your baby are healthy. It will also help us to recognise when input from our specialist antenatal services might be necessary.

Our dermatology experts in Newcastle help to diagnose and treat hundreds of patients every year and care for both adults and children.

They run a number of general and specialist dermatology clinics and deal with a wide range of conditions and diseases affecting the skin, mucous membranes, hair and nails.

Some of our specialists also perform dermatological surgical procedures such as Mohs micrographic surgery (a type of surgery for removing certain types of skin cancer), laser surgery and some cosmetic surgery.

Our dermatology department is child friendly and we have a highly skilled team of Nurse Specialists and a Nursery Nurse to help distract our young patients.

We know that coming into hospital can often be upsetting for children and their parents. To help make your child’s experience as stress free as possible, we have a special clinic just for children in our Dermatology Outpatient Department.

Most of our patients are referred to us by GPs, but we also see patients from other hospitals across the region.