The Care Quality Commission
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County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

This is an organisation that runs the health and social care services we inspect

Important: Services have been transferred to this provider from another provider
Important:

We served a S29A warning notice on County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust on 23 December 2025 because we had concerns about the trust’s governance systems, the management of identified risk and the processes for learning from incidents and complaints. This followed a well-led assessment of the trust.

Overview

Report published: 12 June 2026

  • Well-led Our assessments of NHS trusts now focus on leadership. We no longer rate trusts overall for their safety, effectiveness and responsiveness or how caring they are. We do still publish those ratings for the services they provide.

    Inadequate

Ratings for specific services

We often carry out focused inspections on individual services. The following ratings are from our focused inspections.

Regulated activities