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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

Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings
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

Latest inspection: 02 July to 04 Jul 2019 Report published: 3 December 2019

  • Safe

    Requires improvement

  • Effective

    Good

  • Caring

    Good

  • Responsive

    Good

  • Well-led

    Good

  • Use of resources

    Good

  • Combined Rating This is awarded by combining our 5 trust-level quality ratings of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led with the Use of Resources rating.

    Good

Ratings for specific services

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