It provides mental health and learning disability services in Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, Stockport, Tameside and Glossop.

[1] Community services based in Trafford transferred to Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

In 2017, the Greater Manchester Resilience Hub was set up in response to the Manchester Arena attack, to co-ordinate care and support for thousands of children, young people and adults whose mental health and/or emotional wellbeing was affected.

The trust set up a new system, the Street Triage service, to provide 24-hour advice to police officers and paramedics in Tameside on the best place to take patients during incidents.

This is intended cut the number of people detained in custody under the Mental Health Act.