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Feeling rough? Here’s a few simple home remedies that may help ease your symptoms🌡️

Not sure where to go if your child is feeling unwell? Our children's emergency medicine consultant, Lee, shares helpful advice on the different services available for children and when to use them, helping you access the right care, in the right place, at the right time.

Your local pharmacy may be able to help without needing a GP appointment. Pharmacy First offers advice and treatment for a range of common conditions, helping you get the care you need quickly and conveniently. #PharmacyFirst

Is your first aid box winter-ready? ✅ From paracetamol and cold & flu remedies to hydration tablets and cough medicine, our pharmacy team shares the key items to keep at home this season.

🐾 Welcome back, Yang! We’ve missed you! Our much-loved catfeline visitor hit the headlines yesterday after going missing and turning up 60 miles away! Yang usually visits Hexham General Hospital almost every day, bringing comfort, smiles and plenty of purr-sonality to our patients and staff Watch…

Pregnant and wondering about the flu, RSV or whooping cough vaccines? 🤰💉 These vaccines help protect both you and your baby during pregnancy and in those precious first weeks after birth. If you have any questions or concerns, leave them in the comments below and our midwives will do their best to…

One tiny spray 👃 One big step to help protect you from flu 💙 Our school aged immunisation team will be heading out to schools this month to protect young people from flu. Make sure you're protected.

However you say it, a flu vaccine is always worth celebrating 🎉. Our School Aged Immunisation Team will be visiting schools from September to help protect young people from flu.

Contraception comes in many forms. From pills and patches to coils and implants, these are just some of the options available 💊 Speak to a healthcare professional to find what's right for you 🏥

Understanding leads to better care. Come spend the morning with us at our Care for the Older Person workshop and discover how small insights can make a big difference.

Sunny has spoken. And he’d like the record to show he’s definitely the sun ☀️ Bringing brightness to the NHS is hard enough without the identity crisis 😎

Come along with Jessica for a morning on the road as a district nurse in rural Northumberland💙☀️ #nursing #nhs #northumbria

Come and spend a day with an occupational therapist from the community response service 💚 Their role supports earlier discharge from hospital by providing rehab and adaptions to help patients get back home.

We are incredibly proud to celebrate our special care baby unit (SCBU) team at Cramlington for achieving the Gold Bliss Baby Charter award. As one of the only units in the North East to receive this prestigious award, this fantastic achievement recognises the outstanding care, compassion and…

Come behind the scenes with our school aged immunisation team as they spend the day vaccinating Year 8 students against HPV 💉 Both girls and boys in Year 8 receive the HPV vaccine to protect them against human papillomavirus which can cause some cancers such as cervical and male cancers. HPV is…

Come behind the scenes with us to watch how our theatre hats are made ✂️ #northumberland #nhsengland

What can I expect in my STI home testing kit? When ordering your kit online, you can choose which tests will be included so you know what to expect when your kit arrives. Depending on what you need, you can choose from: - Vaginal swab - Urine sample - Rectal swab - Throat swab - Blood samples…

Every midwife has a story to tell 💙 This International Day of the Midwife, we asked our incredible maternity teams what being a midwife means to them. Thank you for the compassion, dedication and care you bring every single day.

This week is Patient Experience Week 💙 So we thought it was the perfect time to introduce you to our incredible volunteers. Behind every great patient experience are people who truly care. Alongside our amazing NHS staff, our brilliant Bright volunteers offer support, kindness and a friendly face…

For the past seven years, our charity Bright has had the honour of supporting Wag & Company, a local charity bringing friendship dogs into people’s lives. This week, we were delighted to celebrate one of their amazing dogs, Whitley, who has reached 500 volunteer hours spreading comfort and smiles 🐾

To round off our series of quickfire questions for National Apprenticeship Week, we spoke to Bex about her experience as an apprentice working in primary care. Bex is a reception apprentice at Northumbria Primary Care. We asked her about her biggest challenge, what she enjoys most about her…

We're back with another set of quickfire questions! This time, we're speaking to Tom Coulson. Tom is a management assistant at Northumbria Healthcare Facilities Management. He started his career as a level 3 business administration apprentice. #NAW26 #Apprentices #Apprenticeships # NHSCareers…

❓ We asked one of our healthcare apprentices, Anya Patterson, some quickfire questions about life as an apprentice at Northumbria Healthcare. #NAW2026 #HealthcareCareers #Apprenticeships #HealthcareAssistant #NHSCareers

Ayesha shares what is involved in her role as an occupational therapist. Watch the video to see how she supports patients day-to-day 💚

Last year our emergency department started using reusable suture kits to improve sustainability and reduce costs. Watch the video to follow the journey of the kit as it gets sterilised after patient use 🏥

Meet Viv! 👋 Viv is a medical training and education resource that helps our staff receive lifelike training. As she looks so real, Viv adds a layer of realism that would normally only be achieved with actual patients. #NHS

To celebrate #OTWeek25 we’re sharing another day in the life of an occupational therapist, this time from the orthopaedic pre-op team 💚 #OccupationalTherapy #NHS

We have an exciting opportunity for people in Berwick and the surrounding areas to come and make an exciting piece of artwork for the new Berwick Hospital 🖼️ A mobile sculpture inspired by the town’s fishing history will hang in the atrium of the new hospital making it the first thing people see…

Our Bright Charity is celebrating their Brightest Day of the Year on Thursday 17 July. Their mascot, Sunny, has been adding a bit of brightness to patients and staff for a while now - but it's time to share the love! For just £9.99, you can take home a Baby Sunny and provide vital funds to Bright…

It’s National Healthcare Estates and Facilities Day! 💙💚 Last week, we had the pleasure of visiting our incredible estates and facilities team at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital. We took the opportunity to learn more about the vital roles they play behind the scenes—and how their…