Salford Royal Hospital is part of the Northern Care Alliance. It is located on Stott Lane in Salford, just off the M602.
The Northern Care Alliance consists of Salford, Bury, Rochdale and Oldham hospitals.
Salford is the home of the regional Major Trauma Centre. This is where patient who have suffered multiple injuries are brought to by air ambulance or by road ambulance. There are specialist services at Salford not provided elsewhere in the Greater Manchester area, such as Neurosurgery, Spinal Surgery and Limb Reconstruction Surgery. This means that patients with multiple injuries to different parts of their bodies can be cared for in a hospital where these important emergency services are based.
Salford Royal Hospital is a Teaching Hospital associated with Manchester Medical School and the University of Manchester, The University of Salford and Manchester Metropolitan University, training Manchester’s future doctors, nurses and medical scientists. It is a focal point for research and education in medicine.
The Greater Manchester Trauma Hospital is a purpose built £68 million pound building which addresses the emergency needs of patients from all over Greater Manchester. The roof of the GM MT hospital is a helicopter landing site, which allows patients to be transferred quickly from the helicopter to the Emergency Department.
The Limb Reconstruction Unit is located in the Orthopaedic and Fracture Clinic on the first floor of the Turnberg Building on the Salford Royal site.
The hospital is an accessible site with an entrance which is on the same level as the Orthopaedic and Fracture Clinic. The radiology department is adjacent to the clinic, so that patients do not have to go far for their xrays.