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Welcome to City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust provides a wide range of hospital services to our local community along with an increasing range of more specialised services to patients outside this area. Whilst the main focus of our services is acute, the Trust also provides a substantial range of community-based services.
News
- "Annual General Meeting" - 22 Sep 2009 The Annual General Meeting of City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust will be held on Thursday, 24 September 2009 at 3.30 pm in the Board Room, Sunderland Eye Infirmary.
- "Safeguarding Children at City Hospitals Sunderland" - 10 Sep 2009 City Hospitals Sunderland is satisfied that our arrangements for the Safeguarding of Children are robust and meet the standards outlined by the CQC and the Trust is compliant with standard C2.
Equality, Diversity & Human Rights
City Hospitals Sunderland believes in equal opportunities both for our staff and the people we serve. Read more about our disability equality scheme
Launch of NHS Help Card
A lot of people have told us that they are having problems getting around the hospital. After talking and working with many different community groups we have developed a NHS Help Card.
Working with us
Information on all current vacancies at the Trust and information about the Foundation Programme for Junior Doctors
Freedom of Information
Access our Publication Scheme and links to our published documents.
Foundation Trust
City Hospitals is seeking local residents and patients to become members of our Foundation Community. Find out more information and use our on-line application form.
National Pandemic Flu Service
Please call these numbers to find out more about your symptoms or to see if you need antiviral treatment.
BrowseAloud
Sunderland NHS is proud to announce that this public health portal is now speech-enabled with the additional feature of Browsealoud!
Browsealoud is screen-reading software and is available free to download, you simply look, click and listen.
Browsealoud is software that is able to read this website aloud to you. Sunderland NHS chose to add this software to assist our visually impaired users and users who may have difficulty reading.
Sunderland Health Portal
You are currently in City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust which is one section of the Sunderland Health Portal. Here you can find more comprehensive information on the rest of the Sunderland Health Community.
Focus On - Chester Wing
Then..
Work began on 'Scheme III' in July 1998 and it opened for business in November 2000. The whole scheme provided new maternity facilities, rehabilitation facilities and an Outpatient Department known as Chester Wing. It was officially opened in December 2000 by Her Majesty the Queen and was immediately hailed as a great addition to the Trust's facilities by patients and staff.
..and now
Chester Wing contains dedicated diabetic, urology, audiology, ENT, oral & maxillofacial, dermatology, chest and ECG units, as well as a general outpatient area that supports the service delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical needs. Chester Wing also has an outpatient pharmacy service and a WRVS-run snack shop facility.
Waiting Times
City Hospitals monitors its waiting times for outpatient and inpatient appointments and reports on these at the bi-monthly Board of Directors meetings held in public. These meetings are open for anyone to attend. The Trust is currently maintaining the maximum waiting time of 13 weeks for new outpatient appointments following referral by a GP. This ahead of the Government's timetable and reflects the Trust's continued commitment to improving access to its services. Waiting times for all acute Trusts are published on the NHS.UK website 
Comments & Feedback
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