[1] Northumberland, Tyne and Wear formed a sustainability and transformation plan area in March 2016 with Stephen Eames, the Chief Executive of North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust as its leader.
[3] The plan proposed to eliminate a projected 2020/21 deficit of £641 million and establish a Northumbria accountable care organisation.
The North East commissioning support unit was to be transformed into a community interest company owned by its 11 CCG customers.
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Alan Foster was made lead for all three STPs in October 2017.
[8] North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group was rated as inadequate by NHS England and entered into a management arrangement with Newcastle Gateshead CCG in January 2017.
[9] Northumbria is a vanguard area for the development of integrated primary and acute care systems as proposed in the Five Year Forward View.
North Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group set up a 12-month pilot using LIVI in August 2020 to offer online video appointments for all of its patients.
[14] Mental health services in the county are provided by Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.