South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of general healthcare services as well as a number of specialised services, including expertise in heart disease, cancer, trauma, neurosciences, renal (kidney) services, and spinal injuries, among other things. Our hospitals – the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough and the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton – are also major trauma centres, and we provide community services in Hambleton, Richmondshire, Middlesbrough, and Redcar and Cleveland. 

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This includes services at four community hospitals:

• Redcar Primary Care Hospital

• Guisborough Primary Care Hospital

• East Cleveland Primary Care Hospital in Brotton

• Friary Community Hospital in Richmond

KNOW THE LOCATION

The North Riding of Yorkshire became an administrative county in 1889, and the town's municipal borough became a county borough as well. County Durham and the North Riding of Yorkshire boroughs and parishes formed the County Borough of Teesside from 1968 to 1974. Cleveland was established as a non-metropolitan county in 1974, and remained so until 1996, when the Middlesbrough Borough Council (now known as Middlesbrough Council) became a unitary authority in North Yorkshire. Tees Valley Combined Authority includes the authority. 

In 2019, the borough's population was estimated to be 140,980, ranking it as the 155th most populous district in England. The Middlesbrough subdivision of the Teesside built-up area had a population of 174,700 at the time of the 2011 census; the population is larger due to an area outside the council area known as Greater Eston. The population of the built-up area, of which Middlesbrough is the most populous, was 376,633.