North Tyneside General Hospital – North Shields
About North Tyneside General Hospital – North Shields
North Tyneside General Hospital, run by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, is a general hospital that includes mental health and rehabilitation provision alongside its wider acute and community services, covering an unusually broad range of ages and needs.
The hospital’s CQC findings are mixed: Safe and Effective are rated Good, Caring and Responsive are rated Outstanding, and Well-led is rated Requires Improvement, from an inspection published in October 2019.
Facility Type
Setting and Surroundings
A town setting in North Shields, 28 miles from the coast. The nearest town is North Shields (population 40k), under a mile away.
Nearest named features
- Silverlink ParkHill · 1.6 miles
- Seaton Carew BeachBeach · 28 miles
- Pawlaw PikeMountain · 31 miles
- Greenlee LoughLake · 35 miles
- Grassholme ReservoirReservoir · 39 miles
Getting there
- Newcastle International Airport (NCL)Airport · 8.8 miles
- Teesside International Airport (MME)Regional airport · 36 miles
Setting and distances are calculated from this facility’s coordinates against GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), OurAirports and Natural Earth. Distances are straight line, not driving distance.
North Tyneside General Hospital Drug and Alcohol Treatment Services
Alongside its general hospital services, North Tyneside provides mental health and rehabilitation care spanning children, adults and older people, including dementia, learning disabilities, substance misuse and physical disabilities, with capacity to detain patients under the Mental Health Act.
Given the Requires Improvement finding for Well-led alongside otherwise strong ratings, it’s worth asking the trust what’s changed in how services are managed since that 2019 inspection.
Levels of Care
Mental Health Disorders Treated
Counseling and Therapy
Specialized Programs
North Tyneside General Hospital Address, Location and Contact Information
The hospital is on Rake Lane, North Shields, NE29 8NH.
Call 0844 811 8111 (the trust’s number may also appear as 0344 811 8111 in more recent records), and northumbria.nhs.uk covers the trust’s full range of services at this site.
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Is Treatment at North Tyneside General Hospital Free?
Mental health and rehabilitation care at North Tyneside General Hospital, including under the Mental Health Act, is NHS-funded rather than charged to patients.
A privately funded equivalent for comparable mental health rehabilitation care in the North East would typically cost around £10,000 to £30,000 a month, though this isn’t the usual route into this NHS hospital’s services.
Payment Options
Dual Diagnosis Treatment
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North Tyneside General Hospital – North Shields — Compiled From Public Records
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North Tyneside General Hospital Reviews and Ratings
Given the hospital’s strong Caring and Responsive ratings alongside its Requires Improvement finding for leadership, current reviews offer a useful, grounded check on how things feel day to day.
If you have experience of the mental health or rehabilitation services here, please share your review below.
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