Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Charity

Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Charity drives world-class compassionate care by enhancing health and wellbeing for patients, staff, and North East communities linked to its NHS Foundation Trust, complementing core NHS services through innovative grants, research, education, and partnerships. Core values of compassion, inclusivity, partnership, and responsiveness to local needs underpin a holistic philosophy tackling health inequalities and broader health determinants, believing staff wellbeing enables superior patient care, community engagement fosters resilience, and rapid research translation delivers lasting generational impact via value-additive interventions.

It funds patient care enhancements including medical, surgical, therapeutic equipment, hospital refurbishments, arts, music initiatives, and physical, mental wellbeing programs across all ages, such as fruit schemes, specialist counselling, and family hardship support for children in Great North Children’s Hospital, cancer patients via Sir Bobby Robson initiatives, and adults with complex health needs. Staff support covers wellbeing, hardship relief, professional training, conference participation, and researcher development institutes for nurses, midwives, allied health professionals. Innovation grants back cutting-edge medical technology, distinctive clinical research aligned to Trust priorities, and rapid practice translation. Health inequalities efforts target marginalised groups like patients with learning disabilities, refugee families, disadvantaged young people through Newcastle United Foundation partnerships, and community-led VCSE collaborations delivering preventative outreach, peer support, and holistic health improvement beyond hospital walls, emphasizing person-centred, trauma-informed, evidence-based approaches.

Exclusions include retroactive funding or replacements for standard NHS provision, core costs, overheads, or non-additive activities. Priorities favour North East communities facing disadvantage, flagship specialist causes in child health and cancer, and beneficiaries like isolated patients, overworked carers, frontline staff, and underserved families. Distinctive as an NHS-integrated enabler, it champions voluntary sector partnerships, ambitious innovation in teaching hospital contexts, community empowerment against inequalities, and sustained whole-system transformations prioritizing inclusivity, professional talent, and collaborative equity.