Hospital teams in South Tyneside and Sunderland have shared their ambitions to create outstanding future services which offer the very highest quality of safe patient care and clinical excellence. Following several months of work led by local doctors, nurses and therapy staff from both hospitals as part of Phase Two of the Path to Excellence programme, an ‘Updated Draft Case for Change’, outlining the future ambitions for hospital care, has now been published.
Highlighting the importance of food and drink to health and wellbeing will be on the menu in South Tyneside and Sunderland hospitals during Nutrition & Hydration Week 2019. South Tyneside and City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trusts are supporting the week from March 11th-17th with a programme of activities emphasising the positive and inspiring aspects of good practice already taking place and generally encouraging good nutrition and hydration for patients and staff.
One of the region’s leading consultants in elderly medicine and a much-loved mentor to dozens of junior doctors for almost two decades has taken up a key role in the University of Sunderland’s new School of Medicine.
