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Become a member of North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and get involved in your local hospitals.

Our members:

• Receive a quarterly magazine giving them news from across the trust and the NHS

• Can be nominated by another member to become a governor on our Council of Governors

• Can vote for and elect governors

• Can speak to their governors and give them suggestions to help improve care for patients

Click here for the on line application form

Want to make a donation? Many people say thank you for the care they or a relative have had by making a donation to help future patients. All of this money is very gratefully received and every penny is spent on making our wards and departments more comfortable, buying extra equipment or providing extra training for staff. If you would like to make a donation please make your cheque payable to North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and send it to the ward manager of the department concerned. If you're interested in raising money for the ward or department please email communications@nth.nhs.uk for help and advice.

Want to make a donation?

Many people say thank you for the care they or a relative have had by making a donation to help future patients. All of this money is very gratefully received and every penny is spent on making our wards and departments more comfortable, buying extra equipment or providing extra training for staff. If you would like to make a donation please make your cheque payable to North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust and send it to the ward manager of the department concerned. If you're interested in raising money for the ward or department please email communications@nth.nhs.uk for help and advice.

about us

Our People First Values We are committed to our People First Values and ask our staff to respect and practise these values in their working lives. Our People First Values are Treat all people with compassion, care, courtesy and respect Respect each person’s right to privacy, dignity and individuality Take time to be helpful Respond quickly and effectively Always give clear, concise explanations Practise good listening skills Develop and maintain and appropriate environment Look the part Deal effectively with difficult situations Perform as a team

Our People First Values
We are committed to our People First Values and ask our staff to respect and practise these values in their working lives.
Our People First Values are

Treat all people with compassion, care, courtesy and respect

Respect each person’s right to privacy, dignity and individuality

Take time to be helpful Respond quickly and effectively

Always give clear, concise explanations

Practise good listening skills

Develop and maintain and appropriate environment

Look the part

Deal effectively with difficult situations

Perform as a team

Our Trust
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust was formed on 1 April 1999 and was authorised as North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust on 1 December 2007. We provide hospital and community based health care to around 365,000 people living in East Durham, Hartlepool, Stockton on Tees and surrounding areas and part of Sedgefield. Our breast and bowel screening service extends further than this taking the total population we serve for screening services to around 400,000.

We have two hospitals

The University Hospital of North Tees (formerly North Tees General Hospital)

The University Hospital of Hartlepool (formerly Hartlepool General Hospital)

We also provide a small number of outpatient and outreach clinics at Peterlee Community Hospital.

University Hospital of North Tees
Our vision

To be the best hospitals in the region by delivering excellent healthcare to our patients

University Hospital of Hartlepool

Our mission statement

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust will become the healthcare provider of choice, placing people at the centre of what we do, delivering efficient, safe and reliable hospital services, enabling excellence, encouraging innovation, embracing learning, knowledge and change.

To achieve this, we shall operate a lean, performance-focused organisation that thrives on change and provides

good patient care, through safe, modern, high quality health services;

efficient services, recognising that waste in one area compromises patient care in another;

a good place to work by working together and valuing people;

education and training to enable staff to deliver individual, professional, team and organisational objectives.

Trust board who's who

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