City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust was established as an NHS Trust in April 1994 and became an NHS Foundation Trust in July 2004, providing services in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. It operates Sunderland Royal Hospital, Sunderland Eye Infirmary, The Children’s Centre, Durham Road and Church View Medical Practice. It is building a new diagnostic and treatment centre in Durham.[1]
| Type of Trust | |
|---|---|
| NHS hospital trust | |
| Location | |
| Trust Details | |
| Last annual budget | £306 million |
| Employees | 4,973 |
| Chair | |
| Chief Executive | |
| Links | |
| Website | City Hospitals Sunderland |
| Wiki-Links | National Health Service |
In May 2018 it agreed to merge with South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust to form South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust.[2] The merger completed in April 2019.[3]
All inpatient stroke services, obstetrics, inpatient gynaecology and specialist care for babies from South Tyneside District Hospital are to be centralised at Sunderland Royal Hospital.[4]
Subsidiary company edit
In 2017 the trust established a subsidiary company, City Hospitals Sunderland Commercial Enterprises Limited, to which 250 estates and facilities staff were transferred. The intention was to achieve VAT benefits, as well as pay bill savings, by recruiting new staff on less expensive non-NHS contracts. VAT benefits arise because NHS trusts can only claim VAT back on a small subset of goods and services they buy. The Value Added Tax Act 1994 provides a mechanism through which NHS trusts can qualify for refunds on contracted out services.[5]
Performance edit
The trust paid £1,353,544 to private companies to help provide medical and nursing staff cover between January 2013 and January 2014, and a further £1,294,950 in 2014, principally for endoscopy work.[6]
In September 2016, the trust was selected by NHS England as one of twelve Global Digital Exemplars.[7]
Emeli Sande was born at Sunderland Royal.[8]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Work begins on new specialist treatment centre in Durham". B Daily. 12 April 2017. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
- ^ "Leaders of alliance trusts agree to full merger". Health Service Journal. 23 May 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
- ^ "City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust". NHS England. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
- ^ "Health secretary backs hospital reconfiguration plans". Health Service Journal. 3 September 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
- ^ "In full: Trusts with staff transfer plans". Health Service Journal. 14 February 2017. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
- ^ "North NHS hospital hands over £2.6m to private companies to help meet targets". Chronicle Live. 21 June 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ^ "New plans to expand the use of digital technology across the NHS". gov.uk. Department of Health and The Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
- ^ Dingwall, John (2014). Emeli Sande: Read All About It. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-1783053575.