South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has entered a partnership agreement with North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, creating a new hospital group.
The two Teesside hospital trusts announced plans to form this hospital group earlier this year.
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This collaboration is designed to enhance patient outcomes across Teesside and nearby areas.
The formal agreement aims to reinforce collaborative efforts among the hospitals, building on a foundation set by last year’s establishment of a joint chair role.
This alliance will focus on enhancing specialist medical staff recruitment and retention, engaging with local communities to boost health and wellbeing.
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By GlobalDataBoth trusts have previously formed a Joint Partnership Board to address their common concerns.
Under the new hospital group model, each trust retains its statutory independence, with no execution of merger.
Such a model is set to evolve over the next two years, prioritising community-based initiatives.
The initiative reflects a national trend of NHS organisations seeking closer collaboration in the post-pandemic landscape.
With a history of cooperative work, the two trusts were instrument in the cross-referral of patients for specialised treatments such as cardiac care and pain management, and in the shared efforts of cancer surgeons during the peak of the COVID-19 crisis.
NHS said that by formalising this relationship through the formation of a hospital group, the trusts will be better equipped to retain and bring in specialist physicians and nursing staff in difficult-to-find locations through improved combined workforce planning and partnership on both trusts’ common goals.
