[4][5] The aim of the merger was to provide a "high quality range of mental health and learning disability services for the people who live in our areas, and beyond".

[9][10] In 2015 the Trust opened the Old Vicarage, in Seaham, as part of its commitment to modernise its mental health and learning disabilities services, staffed by nurses, doctors, therapists, psychologists, support and social workers previously based at Easington Medical Centre.

[11] It was awarded a contract to run mental health and learning disability services in the York area to start in October 2015.

It also delivers mental health care within prisons across the North East, Cumbria and parts of Lancashire.

This includes inpatient, day and outpatient assessment such as acute, intensive care and rehabilitation services.

Services are also provided for people with mental health problems who need to be cared for in medium or low secure environments.

[17] In April 2020 the Trust opened Foss Park, a 72-bed facility for people with dementia or conditions such as psychosis, severe depression or anxiety in York.

[21] The Care Quality Commission inspection in December 2014 was positive with patients and carers said they were treated with respect and courtesy by staff.

[24] In August 2019 the trust's West Lane Hospital in Middlesbrough was closed by the Care Quality Commission after the deaths of two seventeen-year-old female patients.

The affected staff were moved to a subsidiary company (TEWV Estates and Facilities Management Limited) which the trust had set up.