The number of major hospital schemes that have been built and opened in each year since 1997 is tabled as follows:
South Tyneside The north-east The rest of England 1997 0 0 5 1998 0 0 4 1999 0 0 0 2000 0 0 6 2001 0 1 7 2002 0 1 13 2003 0 3 10 2004 0 1 10 2005 0 0 12 2006 0 1 17 2007 0 1 10 2008 0 1 6 2009 0 1 16 2010 0 1 0
There have been a number of smaller scale health service projects in the South Tyneside area which include The Washington primary care centre (capital cost £6 million) which opened in 2008; the Gateshead and South Tyneside Joint Assessment Unit (£4.5 million) and three other schemes at the South Tyneside primary care trust amounting to £9.5 million.