Wansbeck General Hospital is a district general hospital based in Ashington

Ashington

Ashington is a town and civil parish in Northumberland, England with a population of around 27,000 people; it was once a centre of the coal mining industry. The town is located some north of Newcastle upon Tyne off the A189. The south of the town is bordered by the River Wansbeck...

, Northumberland

Northumberland

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. It is one of two "low energy" built hospitals in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, and is the most northerly General hospital in England

England

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. Wansbeck General Hospital is part of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust, the two other acute hospitals in the trust being in North Tyneside

North Tyneside

The Metropolitan Borough of North Tyneside is a metropolitan borough of Tyne and Wear, in North East England and is part of the Tyneside conurbation. Its seat is Wallsend Town Hall....

 and Hexham

Hexham

Hexham is a market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, located south of the River Tyne, and was the administrative centre for the Tynedale district from 1974 to 2009. The three major towns in Tynedale were Hexham, Prudhoe and Haltwhistle, although in terms of population, Prudhoe was...

. The hospital has an Accident and Emergency Department which is open 24 hours a day.

Most general and acute services are provided within the trust; specialist referrals are mainly made to the Newcastle Hospitals (Royal Victoria Infirmary

Royal Victoria Infirmary

Originally founded as the Newcastle Infirmary in 1751, the Royal Victoria Infirmary , in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, was opened on 11 July 1906 by Edward VII on of Town Moor given by the Corporation and Freemen. The fully furnished and equipped hospital, containing twenty wards, a nurses' home,...

, Freeman Hospital

Freeman Hospital

The Freeman Hospital is an 800-bed tertiary referral centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.The hospital is managed by the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is a teaching hospital for the University of Newcastle upon Tyne...

 and Newcastle General Hospital

Newcastle General Hospital

Newcastle General Hospital was for many years the main hospital for the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and is managed by Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust...

, as well as some to Gateshead and Middlesbrough.

The hospital was previously known as Woodbridge Hospital.

Wards

• Acute medicine:
  • Accident & Emergency Department
  • Rapid Access Therapy Unit (RATU)
  • Medical Admissions Unit

• General Medicine
  • Respiratory Medicine and Haematology (Ward 2)
  • Cardiology and Coronary Care Unit (Ward 3)
  • Elderly Medicine (Wards 8 and 22)
  • Stroke Unit (Ward 9)
  • Gastroenterology (Ward 5)
  • Respiratory, Diabetes and Endocrinology (Ward 17)

• Surgery
  • General Surgery (Ward 4)
  • Orthopaedic Trauma (Ward 6)
  • Elective Orthopaedics (Ward 7)
  • Day Surgery Unit (Ward 15)
  • Female General Surgery (shared with O&G) (Ward 16)

• Obstetrics
  Obstetrics
  Obstetrics is the medical specialty dealing with the care of all women's reproductive tracts and their children during pregnancy , childbirth and the postnatal period...
  
   and Gynaecology
  Gynaecology
  Gynaecology or gynecology is the medical practice dealing with the health of the female reproductive system . Literally, outside medicine, it means "the science of women"...
  
  
  • Delivery Suite (consultant-led unit)
  • Special Care baby Unit
  • Pregnancy Assessment Unit
  • Gynaecology (Ward 16)
  • Maternity (Ward 10)

• Critical Care
  • Intensive Therapy Unit
  • High Dependency Unit

Paediatric services are based at North Tyneside General Hospital.