The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is based in Sheriff Hill in Gateshead, England.

[4] The hospital had a maximum capacity of 78 patients, who were tended by two resident doctors and 10 nurses.

[5] During the period 1918 to 1939, the isolation hospital remained the sole medical provision in Sheriff Hill.

[6] Faced with an increase in population, Gateshead Council decided that a new general hospital should be built.

[9] A new pathology "centre of excellence" for patients from Gateshead, Sunderland and South Tyneside, funded from a £12 million grant from the government, opened in early 2014.