New era for local NHS services and the Northern Care Alliance

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust have become a single NHS Trust known as the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.

The NCA has operated as a “group” of four care organisations (Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, and Salford) since 2017 and is now a single, integrated entity. The NCA will now be known only as the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust, although it will keep the names and identities of its four care organisations and hospital sites, including Salford Royal, to ensure that legacy is not lost.

Over the past five years, Salford Royal and Pennine Acute Trusts have successfully worked together, sharing best practice, innovation and ways of working more efficiently, building the foundations to enable the NCA to deliver great care and experience for patients and service users.

This is a significant milestone in the NCA journey to provide uniformly outstanding care across its four hospitals and community healthcare and social care services, serving a large and diverse area of over 1 million people, and to have a strong voice in the emerging Integrated Care System (ICS) in Greater Manchester.

The creation of a single NHS Trust will enable the NCA and its 20,000 strong workforce to drive forward plans to work with local healthcare partners to further integrate systems, improving efficiency and quality of care.

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