Salford Royal Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Requires improvement

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Requires improvement

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

Salford Royal 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 to check improvements after we issued a warning notice under section 29A of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 in October 2025. The assessment was also undertaken 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 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.