Category: News

NTW Solutions has again worked with the NHS Forest to plant 300 more trees on our main hospital sites for Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW). This is part of our commitment to creating a healthier and more sustainable environment and follows extensive tree planting in previous years. Last year we planted […]

Tracey Sopp, Managing Director of NTW Solutions visited the central switchboard based at St Nicholas hospital in Gosforth and she saw how this busy team handles not just a huge call volume but carries out a range of other tasks. They handle all incoming external calls and those from across our sites when local receptions […]

Our Managing Director Tracey Sopp visited our Outpatient Pharmacy service which is based at St Nicholas hospital in Gosforth. The Outpatient Pharmacy supplies medicines for CNTW patients, who are in the care of CNTW community treatment teams. These patients will be seen by clinicians across the region in various clinics and the outpatient pharmacy puts together there […]

NTW Solutions has delivered Wearmouth View, a major new development at Monkwearmouth Hospital for Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust (CNTW). The building has been designed with sustainability in mind with a range of features to help deliver our Green Plan.  The location of the building itself plays a role as it is easily […]

We sell a wide range of hand made toasties in our cafés which are made fresh by our team. They are toasted in just under a minute in our special Merrychef ovens which means they are perfectly toasted, with a crispy exterior and a warm, melty interior. Some cafés hand make toasties each morning and […]

Tracey Sopp, the Managing Director of NTW Solutions, visited the Estates Department at Carleton Clinic to see firsthand the work being done to transform the estate. NTW Solutions have taken over the management of the estate and is addressing a backlog of maintenance, developing compliance systems and assurance controls, and professionalising the system by moving […]

We have our very own self-confessed hoarder in our Medical Devices Team. John Riddle, our Clinical Technologist, admits to rarely ever throwing anything away and absolutely hating waste. Whenever he is in the estates department waste compound, he says that all he sees is opportunities!   There are many medical devices where the manufacturer does not […]

  Our Procurement Team provide an end-to-end service which can see them involved in tendering a contract through to the item appearing on a shelf in a cupboard. Matthew Lessells, our Director of Estates, joined our the team to see what it takes behind the scenes to ensure that a large and complex NHS organisation […]

Two talented members of our team have released a Christmas song named after the hospital they work in. Peter Prest and Paul Hewitson, also known as The MopHeads, have written ‘St Nicholas (A Joy for Christmas)’ to raise money for the SHINE Fund, a charitable fund which supports service users at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and […]

Most people walking around Saint Nicholas Hospital will have absolutely no idea that beneath their feet there are a series of underground corridors linking all the main buildings together. These corridors were constructed as part of the original building and house key services, such as cables and pipes. Tracey Sopp, our Managing Director, joined the […]