Tyne and Wear Archives Service
Record types
- Administrative
- 1939 - 1981
- Admission
- 1939 - 1981
- Ephemera
- 1943 - 1975
Finding aids
- Finding aids
- Catalogue
- Location
- At Repository (AR), Wellcome Library (WIHM)
Hospital
Dunston Hill Hospital
Last updated .
Important information
Information about this hospital might be outdated.
Details
- Address
- Dunston Hill, Gateshead, NE11 9QT
- Previous Locations
- Castle Leazes, Newcastle (? - 1928)
- Current Trust
- Gateshead Health NHS Trust (since 1998)
- Foundation Year
- Unknown
- 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
- Other
- Pre-1948 information
- OTHER: Ministry of Pensions.
- Post-1948
- Other
- Post-1948 information
- LA: 1948 - 1953 Ministry of Pensions.
Type
- Pre-1948
- General
- Post-1948
- Acute, Geriatric
- Post-1948 information
- GER: c.1986 - 1989.
Other information
The hospital was originally established as a War Pensioner Hospital at Castle Leazes, Newcastle. Eventually in 1928 it was moved to Dunston Hill. It was controlled by the Ministry of Pensions until 1953 when it passed to the control of the Ministry of Health, but it was not absorbed into the National Health Service until 1 April 1956, when it became one of the group of hospitals administered by Gateshead and District Hospital Management Committee.