Belsay Unit

The Belsay Unit is one of Newcastle Hospital’s specialist services for older people within Newcastle. The unit serves to help older people with complex problems and needs through providing rapid access to multi-disciplinary assessment and on-going rehabilitation.

The unit aims to improve the quality of life for older people in a day hospital setting and currently runs both morning and afternoon sessions for patients.

The team consists of doctors, nurses, occupational therapists, podiatrists, physiotherapists, and support workers, but the unit also has access to dietitians, speech and language therapists, old age psychiatry and clinical psychology.

Belsay Unit operates: 

• A Day Hospital - This includes a balance group and multi-disciplinary Parkinsons Disease team (these services are geographically based serving the West and North of the city).
• City-Wide Services – This includes outpatient clinics, specialist clinics, an Age Concern Day Unit, and a fracture liaison service.

Also includes a balance group and multi-disciplinary Parkinsons Disease team (these services are geographically based serving the West and North of the city).

How can I access the service?

Patients can access the service from Monday to Thursday between 08:30 and 17:00, and on Fridays from 08:30 to 16:30 (the unit is closed at the weekends and on bank holidays).

Referrals to the Belsay Unit are through the Single Point of Access (Tel: 0191 256 3869) by self-referral/family referral, own GP/District Nurse, Social Worker or hospital consultant or any other health professional referral.