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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 Newcastle University.

The Freeman Hospital, which was designed by Newcastle Regional Hospital Department and built by John Laing, was completed in 1977, when services from several hospitals across the city were relocated into one centre.The name of the hospital recalls the life of Patrick Freeman, a tenant  farmer, who, with his son, tilled the land which is now occupied by the  hospital in the first half of the 19th century.

A major expansion of the site, including a new renal services  centre and a new cancer treatment centre, known as the new Northern  Centre for Cancer Care, was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 2005. 

The hospital is one of the main organ transplantation hospitals in  the United Kingdom, mostly well known for its successful rates of infant  cardiology and transplantation for adults.  In 1987 the UK's first  paediatric heart transplant was carried out on Kaylee Davidson-Olley, at the Freeman.  It is funded and designated by the government as the UK's third transplant hospital. It made history when both the first successful single and  double lung transplants in Europe were carried out at the hospital in  1990.The Freeman is the location of the Institute of Transplantation.

The Northern Cancer Centre is also home to the Bobby Robson clinical trials unit which specialises in oncology clinical trials


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