[12] During the COVID-19 pandemic, the trust also ran the temporary NHS Nightingale Hospital North West, located at the Manchester Central Convention Complex.

[14] It is also the lead provider of multiple specialist services to the 2.8 million people in the Greater Manchester conurbation[14] including: The trust is also the largest single provider of specialist services in North West England.

[18] The hospital rebuild is estimated to cost £500m with the funding provided by the UK Government, and complete in 2030.

£50 million was to be used for rolling out the Allscripts electronic patient record, already used in Wythenshawe, on to the Central Manchester sites.

The money was also to enable reconfiguration of the accident and emergency departments with separation of the flow of major and minor incidents, and a new primary care assessment space at the front doors, backlog maintenance at Wythenshawe and £12 million liquidity support.

[27] In May 2021 planning approval was given for a major expansion of Manchester Royal Infirmary's emergency department and creation of six new operating theatres.

[28] Centrica Business Solutions has a contract to install new energy infrastructure at Withington and Wythenshawe hospitals at a cost of £10.9 million.

This generates an early warning score which enables earlier identification of those patients most in need of intervention.

In January 2021 the trust established a 15-year technology partnership with Siemens Healthineers with a value of approximately £125 million covering more than 350 radiology installations across eight hospital sites.