- NHS hospital
Salford Royal Hospital
Report from 7 May 2025 assessment
Ratings
Our view of the service
Salford General Hospital is an acute general hospital in Salford and has been a part of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust since October 2021 when Salford Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust legally acquired Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and changed its name to Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital provides a range of acute NHS services, including medical care, urgent and emergency care and surgical services. The hospital is the regional centre for major trauma, upper gastrointestinal and bariatric care and the tertiary centre for neurosurgery, neurology and complex spinal care. It is also the quaternary centre for intestinal failure.
We commenced a responsive assessment of the surgical services at Salford Royal Hospital because we had concerns about governance and safety processes in the gynaecology, spinal and neurosurgery services, and to re-rate the surgical services following a rating of requires improvement from our previous inspection in December 2022. We carried out an unannounced inspection visit between 23 and 25 September 2025.
Our assessment only looked at surgery at Salford Royal Hospital. Our findings for the surgical services can be found in the services section of this report.
The overall location rating for Salford Royal Hospital remains unchanged following our assessment of surgery. We rated Salford Royal Hospital as requires improvement.