Tyne and Wear Archives Service
Record types
- Administrative
- 1948 - 1986
- Finance
- 1970 - 1971
- Ephemera
- 1948 - 1986
- Pictorial
- 1973 - 1973
Finding aids
- Finding aids
- Catalogue
- Location
- At Repository (AR)
Hospital
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Last updated .
Important information
Information about this hospital might be outdated.
Details
- Address
- Sheriff Hill, Gateshead, NE9 6SX
- Current Trust
- Gateshead Health NHS Trust (since 1998)
- Foundation Year
- 1948
- Status
- Open
Administrative Authorities
- Regional Board (1948-1974)
- Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
- Management Committee (1948-1974)
- Gateshead and District
- Regional Authority (1974-1982)
- Northern
- Regional Authority (Post-1982)
- Northern
- District Authority (1974-1982)
- Gateshead
- District Authority (Post-1982)
- Gateshead
- Pre-1974 County
- Durham
- Post-1974 County
- Tyne and Wear
- Post-1996 County
- Tyne and Wear
Status
- Pre-1948
- Local Authority
- Post-1948
- NHS
Type
- Pre-1948
- General
- Post-1948
- Acute
Other information
In 1936 the Gateshead County Borough Medical Officer of Health submitted a report advising that a new General Hospital for Gateshead was required. Following approval by the Council and the Minister of Health, work began on the new hospital in 1938, on a site adjoining Sheriff Hill Isolation Hospital. However, due to the War, building work was still in progress when the hospital was officially opened in March 1948, although patients had been treated there since 1943. In July 1948 the hospital was taken over by the NHS.