Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust was formed by a merger of Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust on 1st October 2017.[1]

The merged trust is planned to take over North Manchester General Hospital, run by Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust in 2018 or 2019.[2]

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’.

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.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Multi-million pound merger of two Manchester hospital trusts to go ahead later this year". Manchester Evening News. 1 August 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  2. ↑ "Radical plan revealed to merge all three Manchester hospitals into one trust - and services could go". Manchester Evening news. 31 May 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  3. ↑ "Biggest NHS trust in line for £125m government loans". Health Service Journal. 25 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
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