Stannington had a resident medical officer who would have lived on site, for a long time this role was filled by Dr Farquharson until she retired in 1944 and was replaced by Dr Stobbs, but many of the other doctors were just visiting physicians and surgeons most of whom were attached to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle. They would make regular visits to assess each child's progress and to perform certain procedures that some patients may have required.

Margaret Shotton, a former nurse, was 17 when she first began work at Stannington in 1953 and recounted what life was like on Brough Ward and the visits of these consultants when she participated in a recent oral history project:

"Brough Ward was something special because, Sister Taylor was in charge of it, with a dragon of a nurse, an old dragon of a nurse, called Nurse Smith, who was probably about in her 30s but to a 17 year old. We used to have visiting consultants, Dr Stobbs was the doctor, and then you had visiting consultants used to come out, and when they came out on Brough Ward all the girls they seemed to have an endless source of yellow cardigans, pink cardigans, pink ribbons, yellow ribbons, and you had to dress them all so they were all in matching colours and the beds were all changed, didn't matter if they'd just been changed before. That ward was spotless for these consultants coming in to have a look at the children and we made these poor little girls had to sit up and not move a muscle, which they did."

Many of the visiting consultants had strong interests in tuberculosis in one form or another, for example, Dr Stanger who commenced work in the 1940s had a keen interest in its orthopaedic aspect, and some of them published articles in leading journals such as The Lancet and the British Medical Journal.