South Tyneside District Hospital

South Tyneside District Hospital
South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust
The Ingham Wing, South Tyneside District Hospital
Shown in Tyne and Wear
Geography
Location South Shields, South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates 54°58′16.2″N 1°25′39.6″W / 54.971167°N 1.427667°W / 54.971167; -1.427667Coordinates: 54°58′16.2″N 1°25′39.6″W / 54.971167°N 1.427667°W / 54.971167; -1.427667
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Hospital type District General
Services
Emergency department Yes Accident & Emergency
Beds 394[1]
History
Founded 1880
Links
Website www.stft.nhs.uk
Lists Hospitals in England

South Tyneside District Hospital is a healthcare facility providing healthcare services for South Shields, Jarrow, Hebburn, Boldon, Cleadon and Whitburn. It is managed by South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust, which was formed in 1993,[2] and which, in May 2018, agreed to merge with City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust.[3]

History

The hospital has its origins in an infirmary which was built for the South Shields Poor Law Union and which opened in 1880.[4] The infirmary became known as the Harton Institution and General Hospital by 1930 and, after joining the National Health Service in 1948, became the South Shields General Hospital.[5] After services were transferred from the Ingram Infirmary at Westoe,[6] the new Ingram Wing was built and the enlarged facilities became known as South Tyneside District Hospital in April 1993.[4]

The Trust won a contract from South Tyneside Council to develop an integrated care services hub, to be built as a standalone facility on the hospital site in August 2014.[7]

Services

Sunderland and South Tyneside clinical commissioning groups decided in February 2018 to centralise hospital based stroke, maternity, gynaecology and paediatric services at Sunderland Royal Hospital, so the services at South Tyneside will be closed or downgraded. A 14 hour a day, nurse led paediatric minor injuries and illnesses service at South Tyneside will be established in their place.[8]

Performance

Four-hour target in the emergency department quarterly figures from NHS England Data from https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/ae-waiting-times-and-activity/

The Trust recorded a deficit of £1 Million in 2012-13 but predicts a break even in 2013-14.[9]

Staffing

It achieved the bronze status Investors in People Award in 2015.[10] It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 3818 full time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 5.71%. 63% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 57% recommended it as a place to work.[11] The trust reported a 6.7% staff absence rate, the highest in England in 2014/5.[12]

The trust's staffing costs are said to be 10% higher than comparable organisations. It has had the highest staff sickness absence rate of any acute trust in England for four years in a row, with an average rate of 5.6% of days lost to sickness absence for the first three quarters of 2016-17.[13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ NHS Choices website, Retrieved Sept 2011
  2. ↑ South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust website, Retrieved July 2011
  3. ↑ "Leaders of alliance trusts agree to full merger". Health Service Journal. 23 May 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2018.
  4. 1 2 "South Tyneside District Hospital, South Shields". National Archives. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "South Shields". Workhouses. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "Memories of the old Ingham Infirmary". Shields Gazette. 12 March 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  7. ↑ "Trust wins council social care contract". Health Service Journal. 7 August 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  8. ↑ "Hospital services centralised in North East shake-up". Health Service Journal. 22 February 2018. Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  9. ↑ "More than a third of trusts predict year-end deficit". Local Government Chronicle. 13 March 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
  10. ↑ "South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust praised for treatment of staff". Sunderland Echo. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  11. ↑ "HSJ reveals the best places to work in 2015". Health Service Journal. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  12. ↑ "Agency spending: the real picture". Health Service Journal. 26 November 2015. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  13. ↑ "Hospital trust tops sickness absence table for fourth year in a row". Health Service Journal. 28 April 2017. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
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