[3] The Trust was the first in the country to achieve Clinical Pathology Accreditation for their point of care testing in December 2011.
[4] Stockport NHS Foundation Trust was the first in the country to be awarded international ISO accreditation for emergency planning - April 2013.
[citation needed] The 12 Greater Manchester Clinical Commissioning Groups agreed in July 2015 that Stepping Hill Hospital should be one of the four centres for emergency surgery in the region.
[10] It was one of the beneficiaries of Boris Johnson's announcement of capital funding for the NHS in August 2019, with an allocation of £30.6 million for a new Emergency Care Campus at Stepping Hill Hospital.
They noted low nurse staffing levels and shift fill rates, poor compliance with the early warning score system and infection control.