Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

COE since 2026

Website:

• https://www.newcastle-hospitals.nhs.uk/services/great-north-childrens-hospital/childrens-allergy-service/ 
• https://www.newcastle-hospitals.nhs.uk/services/immunology-and-allergy-unit/ 
• https://www.newcastle-hospitals.nhs.uk/services/great-north-childrens-hospital/childrens-immunology-service/ 
• https://www.ncl.ac.uk/

Mission Statement: Newcastle Allergy Centre, delivered in partnership with Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University, is committed to advancing outstanding, person-centred allergy care, underpinned by academic leadership and educational excellence. Working across clinical practice, research, and training, the Centre brings together patients, children, families, and carers as active partners in care. Through close integration of NHS service delivery and university-led scholarship, we aim to improve lived experiences, generate new knowledge, and build capability across the allergy workforce.

Our multidisciplinary teams operates with a shared care ethos, seeking to deliver safe, equitable, and forward-looking allergy services, in hospital and the community, that serve both present needs and future generations.

This mission is delivered through a focus on:

• High-quality clinical care, ensuring reliable, evidence-based allergy services that meet patient needs consistently

• Patient and family partnership, championing the voices and interests of those affected by allergic disease locally and nationally

• Research and innovation, strengthening scientific understanding and developing improved approaches to allergy prevention and treatment

• Education and knowledge exchange, supporting in person and digital learning across healthcare, academia, and the wider community
  

About the center: Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Newcastle University, together, deliver an internationally recognised centre of excellence in Allergy, Immunology and Respiratory medicine. They have share a mission to provide excellence in clinical care, research for patient benefit and wellbeing, and access to high-quality education for all. Newcastle has a long-standing international reputation for scientific, educational, and patient centered clinical research across Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Expertise spans epidemiology, advanced diagnostics, laboratory science and evidence-based therapeutics
across food, drug, skin, gastrointestinal, ocular, nasal and airway disease.

Research programmes are strongly interdisciplinary and examine immune health from infancy and childhood through adolescence, transition and adulthood. The Newcastle Allergy Centre, United Kingdom (UK), provides a fully integrated, consultant-led Allergy service which functions as a national Advanced Care Centre for the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of complex allergic disease, severe asthma and primary immunodeficiency. It includes one of only a small number of Bone Marrow Transplant centres in the United Kingdom and delivers highly specialised tertiary and quaternary allergy care. Multidisciplinary teams work collaboratively across allergy and related specialties, ensuring seamless care across all clinical settings in hospital and the community. Newcastle University is fully embedded within these clinical services and contributes through close integration across its major biomedical, translational and population health institutes. Research strengths include severe multi-system allergic disease, asthma mechanisms, birth cohorts and allergy prevention, airway inflammation, novel and biologic therapies, allergic rhinitis, atopic genetics/epigenetics, mucosal immunity, skin and eczema biology, food allergy immunotherapy, and microbiome science, including neonatal and early life immunity. This close clinical–academic partnership ensures rapid translation of discovery science into patient benefit. Education and training are core strengths of the partnership. Clinical, nursing, dietetic and allied health teams are actively engaged in teaching and research.

Newcastle University delivers postgraduate research and taught programmes at certificate, diploma, master’s and doctorate level, supporting UK and international healthcare professionals to develop expertise in allergy. The Faculty of Medical Sciences supports a substantial portfolio of undergraduate and postgraduate research projects, and doctoral studies, with outputs regularly published in leading international journals. The partnership hosts and contributes to inhouse, regional, national and international training days for medical specialties including Allergy in collaboration with professional colleges and national societies. Educational outreach extends to primary care and the wider healthcare workforce, supporting upskilling and service development across the region. Aligned to international and UK strategic priorities in allergy and immunology, the combined Newcastle teams contribute to workforce and training recommendations, in both undergraduate and postgraduate curricula. Strategic programmes align with national health service policy priorities including hospital-to-community care, digital transformation and prevention-focused healthcare. 

Looking forward, The Newcastle Allergy Centre has a clear ambition to expand education, strengthen translational research, build sustainable capacity and improve access to highquality allergy and immunology services for patients and professionals locally, nationally and internationally.