Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Trust commissioned one of the biggest Private Finance Initiative schemes in the NHS, designed by Anglo-American architects Anshen Dyer and built by Lendlease.

[9] As the leading provider of tertiary and specialist healthcare services in Manchester, It treated more than a million patients every year.

[11] The Trust constructed one of the biggest Private Finance Initiative schemes in the NHS, designed by Anglo-American architects Anshen Dyer and developed by Lendlease.

This covers domestic services, maintenance and estates, patient catering, portering, linen and laundry, waste management and security, and includes almost all the Trust facilities, not only those built under the contract.

The Trust used BMI Healthcare's Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle, Greater Manchester to help with elective surgery capacity problems, usually in the winter.

[13] In March 2016 the trust entered into a contract with Bruntwood to provide planning and construction advice and design services for its estate.

[14] Problems associated with doctors' illegible handwriting were highlighted in a Care Quality Commission report in May 2014, which also criticised the food as not being healthy enough and lacking variety.

[15] It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015.

[16] The trust recruited 275 nurses in India in the summer of 2015 to help fill 550 vacancies but says that "difficulties in the pre-employment and migration processes required to bring the nurses into the UK" have prevented most of them from arriving because the certificates of sponsorship expired before the required checks could be completed.