Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust


Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS Acute Foundation Trust which operates 9 hospitals throughout Greater Manchester. It was formed by the merger of Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust on 1 October 2017.
It is the largest NHS trust in the United Kingdom, with an income of £1.6bn and 21,945 staff.
The trust is in the process of taking over North Manchester General Hospital, which it has started running since 1 April 2020 under a management agreement with Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust..
Prior to the formation of the new trust, the Competition and Markets Authority decided that while the merger would substantially reduce competition among health services in the area, the benefits to patients were ‘more significant’.

Developments

In January 2018 the trust secured a loan of £125 million from the Department of Health's Independent Trust Financing Facility. £50 million will be used for rolling out the Allscripts electronic patient record, already used in Wythenshawe, on the Central Manchester site. It will also 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.
A helipad is being constructed on the top of the Grafton Street car park to serve the trust's hospitals. It will cost £3.9 million, which has been raised by the trust's charity, Manchester Foundation Trust Charity. It will be connected to the hospitals by a 130 metre long bridge 19 metres above street level. It is expected to serve about 312 patients airlifted to the site each year.
Centrica Business Solutions has a contract to install new energy infrastructure at Withington and Wythenshawe hospitals at a cost of £10.9 million. This will reduce their annual carbon emissions by about 25% and halve the energy bill.
The trust decided in 2019 to install an electronic patient record system from Epic Systems, called Hive. It will provide a new ‘operating system’ for the trust, replacing current IT systems, including electronic patient records and Patient Administration Systems and a number of smaller specialty systems over six sites. The £181 million contract will last for 15 years.
A new helipad, with a Deck Integrated Fire Fighting System, is to be built on the roof of the Grafton Street Car Park at a cost of £3.9 million in 2020. It is expected to serve about 312 patients a year. £1.36 million has been donated by the HELP Appeal.

Overseas patients

The trust issued invoices to patients thought to be ineligible for NHS treatment totalling £2.1 million in 2018-9, but only collected £0.3 million.