This week Gateshead nurse Joanne Graham talks about a typical day in her working life and the important role district nursing plays in the local health and care system
Laura Richardson, a trainee nursing associate at QE Gateshead, talks about her role on an elderly care ward and offers some advice to people seeing dementia in loved ones for the first time.
The QE Gateshead is a very different place to where Sue Blackburn started her first shift as a student nurse 40 years ago. In this new blog she tells us about her career.
In Gateshead, we want our patients to not only receive the best care while they are with us – but to also receive the best service when it comes to safely returning them to their home or a home care setting where they can continue their recovery or treatment.
Our medical director Andrew Beeby is a Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist who has worked at the hospital for 22 years. Here he explains why winter is such a challenge for the NHS and how we’re planning for it this year.
Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is probably the most common difficulty that most of us have never heard of. Yet it is much more common than autism, and it affects about 7% of the population – on average that’s approximately 2 children in every classroom.
