Our vision is simple: we want to build outstanding future hospital services which offer the very highest quality of patient care and clinical excellence for each and every resident of South Tyneside and Sunderland.
Our fantastic teams of NHS staff already deliver truly amazing care, but we know there are areas where we must improve further in order to remove the differences which exist in how care is delivered and the clinical outcomes which patients experience.
We want to be very clear that both South Tyneside District Hospital and Sunderland Royal Hospital will continue to exist in whatever future service models evolve. Both hospitals are of equal importance and there is no intention whatsoever for either hospital to close.