South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust was the

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trust responsible for managing

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History

The trust was authorised as a foundation trust on 1 January 2005. It merged with

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to form

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in April 2019.

Performance

It achieved the bronze status

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Award in 2015. It was named by the

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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. The trust reported a 6.7% staff absence rate, the highest in England in 2014/5. 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.

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