South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust was the National Health Service trust responsible for managing South Tyneside District Hospital.
[1] It merged with City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust to form South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust in April 2019.
[4] It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015.
[5] The trust reported a 6.7% staff absence rate, the highest in England in 2014/5.
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.