South Tyneside District Hospital

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Name :

South Tyneside District Hospital

Address  :

Harton Lane

Town  :

South Shields

State  :

Tyne and Wear

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

NE34 OPL

Phone  :

0191 404 1000

Fax  :

0191 202 2197

Web URL  :

Available

Email  :

chris.morgan@stft.nhs.uk
Specialization
  • Cardiology
  • Daibetes, Endocrinology
  • ENT
  • Gastro-enterology
  • General Medicine
  • General Surgeon
  • Gynaecology
  • Hematologist
  • Neurologist
  • Obestetrician/Gynecologist
  • Oncologist
  • Ophthalmology
  • Orthopedics
  • Paediatrics
  • Pain Management
  • Pathology Lab
  • Plastic Surgery
  • Podiatry
  • Urology
Facilities
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Description
About
Although a comparatively small provider of hospital services by todays standards South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust nonetheless is consistently ranked as one of the best by the organisations which inspect and regulate us The Healthcare Commission the independent body which inspects us gave us ratings of Excellent for the quality of our services and Excellent for the use of resources In addition we underwent two additional Healthcare Commission inspections last year one looking at some of the core standards set for us and testing whether our declared level of compliance was accurate and one looking specifically at the Hygiene Code We achieved excellent results in both of these inspections and it is a great credit to our staff that when we receive external visits such as these we always receive feedback about how knowledgeable and well practised all of our team are in the importance of maintaining national standards such as infection control This latter issue is of high national importance to everyone who uses the health service and once again we continue to maintain some of the lowest infection rates in the country despite increasing service pressures

Our Mission
To provide a comprehensive range of high quality health care services in our hospitals clinics or at home to meet the needs of the local population and others who wish to make use of our services

History
We were established as an NHS Trust in 1993 to provide community and hospital services to the people of South Tyneside and surrounding areas On 01012005 South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust was authorised as one of the new NHS Foundation Trusts We believe that the way a NHS Foundation Trust works will help us to improve the services we provide even further and to do so faster and in keeping with what local people want Our Services are provided mainly at South Tyneside District Hospital On 1st April 2002 many of our community services transferred to the newly established South Tyneside Primary Care Trust
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