About Us
At Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV) we provide a range of inpatient and community mental health, learning disability and eating disorders services.
We serve a population of two million people across County Durham, the Tees Valley, Darlington and North Yorkshire and are geographically one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in England. We also provide mental health care in prisons located in the North East, Cumbria and parts of Lancashire.
We are a catchment area for the largest concentration of armed forces personnel in the UK – Catterick Garrison – and our adult inpatient eating disorder services and adult secure (forensic) wards serve the whole of the North East and North Cumbria.
TEWV was created in April 2006, following the merger of County Durham and Darlington Priority Services NHS Trust and Tees and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust.
In 2008 our Trust became the first mental health Foundation Trust in the North and, since then, it has expanded both geographically, and in the number and type of services provided. Our Trust now has around 8,100 staff, who work out of more than 90 sites, and an annual income of over £480 million.
From education and prevention to crisis and specialist care – our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for. We nurture the recovery journey of people in our care.
Patients and carers have a say in how they are supported and treated, because we know how important it is to listen and treat people as individuals. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We operate across two care group boards – one covering Durham, Tees Valley and forensic services and one for North Yorkshire and York.
Across our care group boards, we provide:
- Adult mental health services
- Mental health services for older people
- Children and young people mental health services
- Learning disabilities
- Health and justice
- Secure inpatient services
As a Foundation Trust we are accountable to local people through our Council of Governors and are regulated by NHS England and the Care Quality Commission.