Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust is proud to introduce its new Corporate Strategy 2025–2030, which sets out a clear and ambitious vision for the future of healthcare in Gateshead.
Established in 2005, Gateshead Health was among the first Foundation Trusts in the country. We have consistently delivered the highest standards of care for our patients over the past 20 years.
An integrated community provider, we provide a range of acute and community services to the population of Gateshead along with several specialist services to a wider population.
We deliver a large range of screening services supported by our regional laboratory services.
Our main sites include Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bensham Hospital, Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) at the Metrocentre and Blaydon Primary Care Centre, alongside a number of smaller community sites across Gateshead.
Our new strategy has been developed through open engagement with our patients, people and partners with our three strategic aims at the centre:
- Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health: ensuring that women across Gateshead have access to personalised, evidence-based care throughout every stage of life. This reflects our ambition to close gaps in access, outcomes, and experience for women, with services designed to be inclusive, responsive, and delivered with compassion.
- Diagnostic services: providing safe, timely, and effective care across the organisation. By combining clinical expertise with the latest diagnostic technologies, we are improving accuracy, speeding up access to treatment, and providing a strong foundation for better patient outcomes.
- Commitment to high-quality integrated health services: delivering joined-up, patient-centred care. By working across teams and with our partners, we aim to provide seamless pathways that support people with complex needs, improve outcomes, and ensure care is delivered in the right place, at the right time.
Gateshead Health has four key priorities:
Excellent patient care
- We will be a clinically-led organisation focused on delivering safe, high-quality care and improving health outcomes for our patients
- We will ensure our patients experience the best possible compassionate care and make every contact count
- We will continually improve our services creating a restorative culture where learning, innovation and research can flourish
Great place to work
- We will care for our people, creating a fair, inclusive and respectful environment where everyone can thrive in their role
- We will grow and develop our people with a focus on celebrating achievements and creating a culture of high performance and innovationWe will be an employer and training provider of choice within the local workforce recognising our role as an anchor institution
Working together for healthier communities
- We will work in collaboration with our partners to improve the health of our population and reduce health inequalities
- We will develop our neighbourhoods in line with the NHS 10 year plan
- We will collaborate with system partners with an emphasis on maximising efficient use of collective resources across health and care services
Fit for the future
- We will ensure effective and efficient use of our resources identifying opportunities to improve productivity and ensure best use of public money
- We will be a data informed, digitally enabled organisation using technology to transform the way we plan and deliver care
- We will focus on productive utilisation of our estate to facilitate care in the right setting and providing our services in an environmentally sustainable way
Find out more about our vision, values and priorities.
