The Trust's Greenway Unit at Trafford General Hospital was the subject of a King's Fund project "Enhancing the Healing Environment" in 2005.

One senior member of staff told the newspaper that "barely any" of the community teams in the region have a full complement of nurses.

The MEN highlighted two cases of patients receiving inadequate attention in particular: Zak Bennett-Eko, a paranoid schizophrenic who had asked to be sectioned over mental health concerns and later threw his 11-month old son into the River Irwell in September 2019 due to a belief he was "the devil"; and Eltiona Skana, who fatally stabbed 8-year-old Emily Jones in March 2020 at Queen's Park in Bolton.

[6] and in January 2017 changed its name to Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.

The trust was one of the biggest beneficiaries of Boris Johnson's announcement of capital funding for the NHS in August 2019, with an allocation of £72.3 million for a new adult mental health inpatient unit on the North Manchester site.