The Freeman Hospital is an 800-bed
tertiary referral centre in
Newcastle upon Tyne
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,
England
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. The hospital is managed by the
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is a teaching hospital for
Newcastle University
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.
History
The Freeman Hospital, which was designed by Newcastle Regional Hospital Department and built by
John Laing, was completed in 1977, when services from several hospitals across the city were relocated into one centre. The name of the hospital recalls the life of Patrick Freeman, a tenant farmer, who, with his son, tilled the land which is now occupied by the hospital in the first half of the 19th century.
A major expansion of the site, including a new renal services centre and a new cancer treatment centre, known as the new Northern Centre for Cancer Care, was procured under a
Private Finance Initiative
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contract in 2005. It was built by
Laing O'Rourke
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History
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at a cost of £150 million and opened in 2009.
Services
The hospital is one of the main organ transplantation hospitals in the United Kingdom, mostly well known for its successful rates of infant cardiology and transplantation for adults. In 1987 the UK's first paediatric heart transplant was carried out on
Kaylee Davidson-Olley, at the Freeman.
It is funded and designated by the government as the UK's third
transplant hospital. It made history when both the first successful single and double lung transplants in Europe were carried out at the hospital in 1990. The Freeman is the location of the Institute of Transplantation.
The Northern Cancer Centre is also home to the Bobby Robson clinical trials unit which specialises in
oncology
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clinical trial
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s.
See also
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Sir Bobby Robson Foundation
*
List of hospitals in the UK
References
External links
UK Transplant HospitalsNewcastle upon Tyne NHS TrustInstitute of Transplantation
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NHS hospitals in England
Teaching hospitals in England
Hospitals in Tyne and Wear
Buildings and structures in Newcastle upon Tyne