Visitors to hospitals around Northumberland and North Tyneside - including the Northumbria Specialist and Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH) in Cramlington are now able to book slots to see their loved ones once again.
The hospitals, managed by the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust across the region, all enforced tight restrictions as Omicron caused Covid cases to spike.
But now, with community transmission of the dominant Covid variant having fallen, hospital bosses are reverting back to the measures in place in late 2021.