Freeman Hospital
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Coordinates: 55°00′07″N 1°35′38″W / 55.002°N 1.594°W
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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 the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. It 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 of necessecary cardiological treatment. It is funded and designated by the government as the UK's third transplant hospital. It made history when the first successful single lung transplant in Europe was carried out at the hospital.
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