Updated 23 August 2018
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation trust (thereby known as ‘the trust’) provides acute and community services to people living in and around the city of Sunderland, South Tyneside, and County Durham.
The trust gained foundation status in 2004 and serves a local community of around 350,000 people by acute and community services, and a wider population of around 860,000 people in the provision of specialist services.
Since March 2016 the trust has been working with the neighbouring South Tyneside NHS foundation trust in a strategic alliance, known as the South Tyneside and Sunderland Healthcare Group. A single executive and management team has been in place across both trusts since November 2016, and in January 2018, both boards began to explore a formal merger between the trusts.
Services are commissioned by Sunderland Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), South Tyneside CCG, Durham Dales, Easington and Sedgefield CCG, and North Durham CCG. The trust works in partnership with the local authority and the local mental health trust.