Major new hospital construction programme to begin next month at Salford Royal

Construction work is due to start in March 2021 on a new £68million hospital at Salford Royal.

Salford Royal is the major trauma centre for Greater Manchester and the hub site for emergency General Surgery for the North West of Manchester.

Once complete, the specialist facility is set to receive 90% of all major trauma patients in Greater Manchester.

Planning permission for the six-storey development (previously referred to as the Acute Receiving Centre) was granted in December 2019. The new hospital build on the Salford Royal site is part of the Government’s Health Infrastructure Plan - which is due to deliver 48 hospitals across the country by 2030.

The new facility, named in honour of the organisation’s recently retired long-standing chairman Jim Potter, will provide the Trust with major trauma and high acuity surgery facilities in a modern and innovative building.

It will also be the hub site for high-risk emergency general surgery across Bolton, Salford, and Wigan. This means that any high-risk patients from these areas who require surgical or non-surgical intervention will be brought to Salford for their care.

The James Potter Building is set to include a resuscitation area, five emergency theatres, inpatient beds, and diagnostic imaging, and a helipad, meaning seriously ill patients will reach the site even quicker for their life-saving treatment.

The scheme aims to be complete in summer 2023.

 

 

Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Chief Executive Raj Jain said: “This important facility has been many years in the planning with a number of our local, regional and national partners and it’s great to now be just weeks away from the official start date of construction. We are proud to be the major trauma centre for Greater Manchester and this centre and the amazing state of the art facilities and our specialist clinical teams within it will allow us to provide trauma care and services to an additional 400 trauma patients per year and help save more lives.

“Our partnership with Bolton NHS Foundation Trust and Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust will see us use this facility as the home for a new single-service for high-risk emergency general surgery. This new team will strive to provide a general surgery service with the best outcomes in the UK for its patients.

“We are of course currently working through the most challenging of times as we deal with the pressures and challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic. The start of construction work is extremely welcomed and fills us all with excitement about the fantastic future that we can start to create for major trauma and complex general surgery services.”

Minister for Health Edward Argar said: “We are backing the NHS to build back better and throughout the pandemic we have continued to plan and invest in the future of our NHS buildings. I’m pleased work will soon get underway on this major development to provide state of the art new facilities and ensure patients can access specialised, life-saving treatment.

“The £68million new hospital at Salford Royal will be one of the 48 hospitals which we’re backing to deliver by 2030 as part of the biggest hospital building programme in a generation and strategic long-term investment in the future of our NHS.”