The Trust

Who we are

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the UK, employing over 28,000 staff. MFT was formed on 1 October 2017 and since then has been responsible for running a family of nine hospitals across six separate sites, providing a wide range of services from comprehensive local general hospital care through to highly specialised regional and national services.

From 1 April 2020 a tenth hospital – North Manchester General Hospital – joined the wider family of MFT hospitals, creating a Single Hospital Service for Manchester.

We are the main provider of hospital care to approximately 750,000 people in Manchester and Trafford and the single biggest provider of specialised services in the North West of England. We are also the lead provider for a significant number of specialised services, including Breast Care, Vascular, Cardiac, Respiratory, Urology Cancer, Paediatrics, Women’s Services, Ophthalmology and Genomic Medicine.

Our communities

The Trust is committed to working together to improve the health and quality of life of our diverse communities. To achieve this goal, and to overcome the challenges we face, the Trust developed a new organisational strategy for 2024 to 2029: Where Excellence Meets Compassion.

MFT is a key partner in Manchester Local Care Organisation (MLCO) and Trafford Local Care Organisation (TLCO), which provide integrated out-of-hospital community services in Manchester and Trafford. This includes community nursing, community therapy services, intermediate care and enablement, some community-facing general hospital services and adult social care services. Over 3,000 MFT NHS community staff are deployed into the LCOs, working together with social care colleagues from the local authorities in a “one team” integrated approach.

Beyond Greater Manchester, we also have significant responsibilities for providing specialist services commissioned by the NHS England Specialised Commissioning Team.