About the Trust
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a population of around half a million people across North Tyneside and Northumberland.
These services run from three general hospitals in Hexham, North Tyneside and Wansbeck and seven community hospitals situated in Berwick, Alnwick, Rothbury, Haltwhistle, Blyth, Morpeth and Wallsend.
The Trust has an annual budget of £270 million. It is one of the largest employers in the North East, with over 6,000 staff.
What does being a Foundation Trust really mean?
It means the Trust is:
- Free from central government control and strategic health authority performance management
- Authorised and monitored by an independent regulator known as Monitor
- Can borrow money within limits set by the regulator, can retain surpluses and decide how to best develop services for their local populations.
Most importantly it means the Trust has greater control over its services so can respond very effectively to the needs of local communities. It is accountable to local people through its 69 elected governors and 70,000 strong membership, made up largely of members of the community who have recently used our services.
Our achievements
Northumbria Healthcare continues to score highly in independent hospital ratings.
The Healthcare Commission has given the Trust the accolade of rating it in the top 30 acute hospitals in the country. That comes on top of being rated as the 5th best provider of maternity services in the country.
For the second year running the Trust was named as one of the top 40 trusts in the country by CHKS Group, a leading independent monitoring company.
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What our patients say
Patients thinks think the Trust performs well too.
The National Inpatient Survey says Northumbria is one of the best performing in the country.
The Trusts own survey of patients - the largest and most comprehensive survey of patients in England – shows that 90% of patients would choose to return to the Trust’s hospitals for treatment.
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