Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

The new organisation, to be called the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group, would have 17,000 staff, and a combined operating budget of £1.3bn covering Oldham, Bury, Rochdale, Salford and North Manchester.

It was hoped that this would deliver £36 million a year in savings by 2021, largely by reducing hospital admissions, cutting management costs and removing duplication.

[6] In 2019 the trust established a 10-year partnership with Hitachi Consulting to set up a digital control centre which "will be able to better match patient and service user individual needs to available resources so that waste and waiting is minimised", at a cost of £25 million.

[9] Previously called Hope Hospital, the trust renamed the premises after the birth of Ian Swift disproved its title.

[10][11][12][13]In the same year it was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for.