Funding and partnerships

Newcastle Hospitals Charity exists to add to and enhance the care and services provided by The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We receive incredible support from patients, families, staff and local communities to help raise millions of pounds every year.

As a result of that support, we are able to fund hundreds of ideas and projects every year ranging from under a hundred pounds through to over a million pounds. This funding is available to every team member at Newcastle Hospitals from technicians to surgeons and porters to specialist nurses.

We organise the funding we provide around five themes which are based on what patients and staff have told us are important.

Patient care:

Ultimately, everything we do should improve the experience for patients. This theme focuses specifically on improved clinical outcomes for patients.

Wellbeing:

We aim to support the Trust to create the best possible non-clinical experiences for patients and visitors. Additionally, over 16,000 people are employed by the Trust and we are focused on staff wellbeing. We support:

• people to live well
• improvements to the hospital environment
• staff and patients who are experiencing a time of hardship.

Staff Excellence:

We aim to enhance the training and development opportunities offered to staff by the Trust. This helps staff to realise their ambitions to be excellent in their fields. Ultimately this translates into better care and treatment for patients.

Innovation:

There is a need for effective research to find better ways of diagnosing and treating many medical conditions. Without these advances, the treatment options and prognosis for some patients within our hospitals will remain limited. Work is continually being developed internationally to increase knowledge and to invent and adopt new approaches.

Health Inequalities: 

We want to support the Trust to tackle unfair and avoidable differences across the population in relation to health and social outcomes. These differences can arise due to the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. 

We currently have nearly 300 funds containing various levels of funding. We draw from those funds in order to support ideas and projects submitted which need funding. We would love to hear from you about your ideas.

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