REVEALED: Northumbria healthcare - The Real Truth

Northumbria Healthcare NHS trust bucks national trend to pay some bank staff bonuses

Some bank staff at the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust will receive a lump sum bonus payment as part of the pay deal agreed in May - but that's not the case elsewhere in the North East

Chronicle Live · Jul 11, 2023

Autism diagnosis 'takes far too long': New report lays bare experience of Northumberland families with NHS services

A new report highlights how young people with autism can struggle to navigate the NHS and access appropriate support.

Chronicle Live · Jun 17, 2023

A&E waiting times improve in the North East with 'trolley waits' slashed and Northumbria Healthcare still best in England

A&E performance in the North East has improved over February, bucking a national trend.

Chronicle Live · Mar 9, 2023

NHS trust to use Fitbits to monitor heart attack patients and help with their rehab

Northumbria Healthcare is one of three NHS trusts to be part of a trial with Fitbit and Google

Chronicle Live · Feb 1, 2023

Nightmare flu season sees almost 30 times more patients in hospitals with the illness compared to November

Figures show that there were almost 300 patients in three North East hospitals with flu on New Year's Day.

Chronicle Live · Jan 6, 2023

Northumbria Healthcare NHS staff 'tired and stretched' with A&E attendances at record levels

It comes ahead of what is expected to be a difficult winter period for the health service nationally

Chronicle Live · Dec 11, 2022

NHS 'one-stop' clinics in Morpeth to speed up treatment for hip and knee replacements and skin cancer patients

Morpeth View will help orthopaedic and plastics patients from the third floor of the existing Morpeth NHS Centre

Chronicle Live · Dec 7, 2022

Northumbria Healthcare and contractors who built new Cramlington hospital settle £140m legal action over 'defects' such as fire safety and drainage

Wide-ranging defects in the seven-year-old Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington led to an £140m legal case.

Chronicle Live · Dec 5, 2022

Northumbria NHS trust sees huge rise in women taking cocaine while pregnant - and they're urged to tell midwife

Cases detecting cocaine in pregnancy at Northumbria Healthcare have risen from just three women in 2017 to 47 in 2021

Chronicle Live · Oct 27, 2022

Northumbria Healthcare introduces new laser treatment for bladder cancer patients - that helps deal with small tumours

The TULA procedure has been introduced at Northumbria Healthcare meaning that patients who would have previously gone to Newcastle no longer need to

Chronicle Live · Aug 31, 2022