 Acute hospital services are provided by North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust and City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, which is building a new diagnostic and treatment centre in Durham.The North East Ambulance Service covers the county.Sunderland and South Tyneside clinical commissioning groups decided in February 2018 to centralise hospital-based stroke, maternity, gynaecology and paediatric services at Sunderland Royal Hospital, so the services at South Tyneside District Hospital will be closed or downgraded.