Our Community Services are here to help you stay healthy and safe in your own home.
We provide services across South Tyneside, Gateshead and Sunderland. We work with people of all ages, from babies to older adults. We get you the help you need, closer to where you live, outside of our hospitals.
Our teams include nurses, therapists, and other health professionals. They visit you at home, in schools, or in local clinics. Click here for full details on where our sites are.
We also help with things like managing long-term health conditions, recovering after illness and helping you stay independent.
The key services we provide are below. Click on each area to find out more.
- Bladder and Bowel
- Community Dental
- Community Dermatology
- Community Falls
- Community Integrated Teams
- Community Nursing
- Community Ready and Reablement Unit
- Discharge Lounges
- District Nursing
- Frailty
- Gateshead Equipment Service
- Hospital at Home
- Intermediate Care Assessment and Rehabilitation (ICAR)
- Learning Disability
- Mental Health
- Musculoskeletal
- Specialist Palliative Care
- Recovery at Home
- South Tyneside Sexual Health
- Specialist Health Visitors (TB service)
- Specialist SEND Health Visitors
- Steps to Health
- Transfer of Care Hubs
- Clinical Director – Dr Abdul Nasser
- Heads of Nursing
- Sue Buchanan
- Mel Milburn
- Lead Matrons
- Sally Burton
- Joanne Bell
- Associate Divisional Director – Jen McArdle
- Directorate Managers
- Rachael Daurat
- Nicola Kirkley
- Libby McCready
- David Newell
