The South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Trust has been criticised for "failing to act" on areas of concern, not having a mental health strategy and not "consistently providing one-to-one care" for people in labour.
Inspectors from the Care Quality Commission have branded the trust - which runs services including at Sunderland Royal and South Tyneside District Hospital - as "requires improvement" and served it with legal requirements to improve across a range of areas. It has been told it must improve in 14 areas "trust-wide", a further ten relate to the medical departments at both hospitals.
These include that the NHS trust needs to improve how staff assess when a patient is deteriorating and in appropriately recording compliance with the Mental Capacity Act. There were also 11 "must-do" actions identified across the trust's maternity services.
