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ICA (North East NHS Independent Complaints Advocacy)
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Tel: 0808 802 3000
Room 312, Floor 3
Adrian House
Sunderland Road
Gateshead
Tyne and Wear
NE8 3HU
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North East NHS Independent Complaints Advocacy
Unhappy with your NHS treatment or care? Want to make a complaint but you’re not sure where to start? This is where North East NHS Independent Complaints Advocacy (ICA) can help.
ICA is free, independent and confidential,.
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Mental Health Matters Pathways
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Tel: 0191 490 0579
Room 203
Aidan House
Gateshead
Tyne and Wear
NE8 3HU
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Advice Workers can provide you with advice and practical help on a variety of issues that may be putting you under pressure and affecting your well-being: this includes issues with Welfare Benefits, debt, housing and employment issues. Advice Workers will provide you with the information you need...
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This service is for people aged 18 years or over, living in Gateshead, who are struggling with their mental health (you do not need a formal diagnosis).
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Gateshead Carers
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Tel: 0191 490 0121
11 Regent Terrace
Gateshead-On-Tyne
Gateshead
Tyne and Wear
NE8 1LU
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We support, advise, represent, advocate and campaign for carers living or working within Gateshead.
We support all carers no matter what the disability or illness of the cared for person and will support you with your needs as a carer.
Whether you need advice from housing to care packages or ju...
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Headway Gateshead And South Tyneside
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Tel: 07725 232527
Blaydon Primary Care Centre
Shibdon Road
Blaydon
Gateshead
Tyne and Wear
NE21 5NW
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Headway Gateshead and South Tyneside is affiliated to Headway UK – the national brain injury association. In April 2010 Headway Gateshead and South Tyneside employed their first member of staff – a community development officer. The community development officer works with people affected by bra...
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Brain injury survivors, carers, family and friends.
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Headway Central Northumberland
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Tel: 0191 283 4623 / 07552101559
c/o North East Regional Co-ordinator
Blaydon Primary Care Centre
Shibdon Road
Blaydon
Tyne and Wear
NE21 5NW
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It is estimated that approximately 30,000 adults in the North East are living with long term effects of a traumatic brain injury. Headway’s groups in the North East are there to support these people and many more in the area affected by conditions such as stroke, meningitis encephalitis and tumour.
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Brain injury survivors, carers, family and friends.
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Specialist Regional Care Advisor North East & Cumbria
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Tel: 0191 241 8761
Genetics Department Muscle Team
International Centre for Life
Central parkway
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE1 3BZ
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We lead the fight against muscle disease.
We provide free practical and emotional support.
We fund world-class research to find effective treatments and cures.
We campaign to raise awareness and bring about change.
We award grants towards the cost of specialist equipment, such as powered wheelcha...
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Anyone with a Neuromuscular condition, their carers and family.
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Eating Distress North East (EDNE)
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Tel: 0191 221 0233
The Old Post Office
5 Pink Lane
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE1 5DE
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EDNE aims to provide support to all those living in Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and County Durham whose lives are affected by eating distress or eating disorders. We do this by providing a range of services including one-to-one counselling, group support, information and training.
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Anyone whose life is affected by eating distress.
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West End Women And Girl'S Centre
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Tel: 0191 273 4942
West End Women and Girls Centre
The Stephenson Building
173 Elswick Road
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE4 6SQ
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The Centre provides support through groupwork where women and girls can meet, have fun, learn skills, look at issues relevant to their lives, building confidence in a safe and supportive environment. Alongside these services the Centre provides one to one support for anyone who needs it. We pro...
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Streetwise
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Tel: 0191 230 5533
35 - 37 The Groat Market
Bigg Market
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE1 1UQ
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We are a young people's project based in the city centre of Newcastle upon Tyne. We work with young people from all over the north-east - you don't have to live in Newcastle to come in!
Streetwise has an information and advice drop-in staffed by project workers, and contraception and sexual heal...
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Young people aged 11 - 25 years.
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Relate Northumberland And Tyneside
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Tel: 0191 232 9109
3rd Floor, Mea House
Ellison Place
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE1 8XS
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Relate Northumberland and Tyneside offer relationship counselling for couples and individuals. We also provide family counselling, psychosexual therapy and counselling for children and young people. We also offer courses, details of which can be found on our website: www.relate-nt.org.uk.
We c...
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Relate service is open to the general public
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