Founded in 1752 with just 12 beds, we’ve grown to become a major research and teaching hospital working with Manchester University’s Medical School and a regional and national centre for services as diverse as kidney and pancreas transplants, haematology, vascular, major trauma, liver and pancreas surgery, rheumatology and HIV care. Around 145,000 patients visit our Accident and Emergency Department each year. Our many leading roles include running the largest home kidney dialysis programme in the country, being the first to provide closed loop insulin pumps for patients with diabetes and in the first group of hospitals to provide the revolutionary CAR T cell therapy for blood cancers.

We are proud to boast many medical breakthroughs, including:

Using 3D technology to perform keyhole urology surgeryUsing handheld robotic device for renal and urology surgeryBecoming internationally recognised in the development of surgery for Encapsulating Peritoneal SclerosisReaching 1000 patients to benefit from remote cardiac device monitoringBeing the first centre in the world to implant a Bonebridge Hearing Device and activating it on the same dayThe first in the UK to perform 1000 cochlear implants procedures.