Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust providing hospital & community services to the city of Salford and beyond.
We are OUTSTANDING! Salford Royal has once again been rated outstanding by the Care Quality Commission. Congratulations to all our staff. Read more here
@CQCInYourArea
Staff Nurse Chrissie Murphy put her vocal talents to the test when she joined a
#dementia
patient singing his favourite hymn!
Chrissie, who works at The Limes Intermediate Care Unit, in Swinton, heard the 80-year-old singing How Great Thou Art and decided to join in.
Light and love at the hospital site tonight! This week we are pleased to be home for this lovely light display from The Christmas Decorators Limited on its tour of NHS organisations around the country.
We were delighted to be able to support one of our in-patients to get married recently. Richard is terminally ill but determined to marry his partner Margaret. As he was too ill to leave hospital, the wedding was brought to him at Salford Royal...
Congratulations to Consultant Surgeon Professor Gordon Carlson on his CBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours for his services to general and intestinal failure surgery.
Grandmother-of-three Colleen was given a clap of honour after being discharged from Salford Royal where she was being treated for
#COVID19
Colleen spent six days in the intensive care unit, including 24 hours on a ventilator
#ThankYouNHS
We’re incredibly pleased to say that Greg is now home with his family after recovering from
#Covid19
Father-of-three Greg said it was ‘touch and go’ whether or not he would pull though at one stage but his wife and family never gave up hope.
#SafeSecureHereForYou
We are delighted to have vaccinated the first patient in Greater Manchester today - Salford Royal volunteer 86 year old Ted Jones.
#COVID19Vaccine
#covidvaccine
Read more:
Our patient Lee Seddon is home with his family after recovering from
#Covid19
Lee’s wife Rachel was waiting for her husband as he left ward M2 and was greeted by dozens of our hospital staff who gave him a
#clapofhonour
as he was discharged.
A big thank you to
#SirAlexFerguson
who has made a huge donation to Salford Royal to say ‘thank you’ to the
#NHS
for the care he received.
Read more about his donation on:
Huge congratulations Victoria Dickens on New Year’s Honours recognition. Vicki,
@NCAlliance_NHS
Director of AHPs + Consultant Physiotherapist/Clinical Director at SRFT, received MBE for services to physiotherapy. An amazing achievement!
A huge thank you to everyone who has supported production of protective visors for our frontline staff - thanks to our friends at
@SalfordUni
,
@OfficialUoM
and
@ManMetUni
who have donated thousands of 3D printed headbands for face shields for our frontline staff!
Building work will start next month on our new £68million hospital to support us in our role as the major trauma centre for Greater Manchester & the hub site for emergency General Surgery for the North West of Manchester.
Read more on this exciting news:
Two of our fantastic nurses Wendy Clapham and Cath Fitzsimmons have been honoured in the New Year’s Honours list 2021 in recognition of their roles throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. They have both been awarded the British Empire Medal. We are so proud!
On Saturday 5 May, the football world was rocked by the news that Sir Alex Ferguson had undergone surgery for a brain haemorrhage.
Since then, the most successful manager in English football history has battled in a way only he knows how.
Today, we bring you a special message.
Members of our community teams were delighted to receive a floral thank you from the Government of Kenya this week. A large delivery of flowers came to Sandringham House and was distributed amongst colleagues. (1/2)
Thanks to our former patient Darren Webb who recently raised £2,500 for our haematology unit at a star-studded event
@hotelfootballuk
Catherine Redshaw from the team said: “We are so humbled by Darren’s kindness and generosity; it has been a privilege to care for him.”
We are excited to announce that we will shortly be appearing on the BBC’s Junior Doctors series! The fly on-the-wall documentary follows six of our junior doctors as they embark on placements on different departments across Salford Royal.
Happy Birthday to the
#nhs
and thank you to all our colleagues across the NCA for everything you do to keep the public safe and healthy!
#NHS72
#HappyBirthdayNHS
Exciting news for 2023!
Professor Smeeta Sinha,
@NCAlliance_NHS
Research and Innovation Deputy Director and Consultant Nephrologist at Salford Royal has been appointed as the National Clinical Director for Renal Medicine by
@NHSEngland
Congratulations!
A big thank you to KFC & Deliveroo for delivering 150 snack boxes to Theatres, A&E And Critical Care yesterday. Driver Sucha said it was an absolute pleasure to deliver them and expressed his gratitude to all NHS workers who he called ‘angels’.
#ThankyouNHS
Good luck to
@SalfordDevils
who will be playing in their first Super League Grand Final at Old Trafford on Saturday!
Did you know we have been working in partnership with the club on a range of health and wellbeing awareness activities for staff and patients?
#TogetherStronger
Well done to all our staff who continue to work so incredibly hard to keep our patients safe and well during
#Covid19
Your efforts have helped us to successfully treat and discharge 336 patients from Salford Royal who were diagnosed with Covid-19.
#SafeSecureHereforyou
Thanks to our domestics colleague Ann Marie Travers who, with the help of the local community, donated 12 tablets to help our patients stay in touch with their loved ones who are unable to visit hospital during this time.
#NCAfamily
Great to hear that Salford Royal was named in the latest edition of
@Newsweek
's Top 100 Hospitals of the World 2020.
Well done to all our wonderful staff.
Well done & thank you to the teams behind Salford Royal’s first colorectal robotic surgery. This took place successfully this week in our newly established designated robotics theatre by colorectal surgeons & a wider team of clinical colleagues. For more:
Thank You
#TeamSalford
is a video created by our Critical Care Team to highlight, celebrate and thank everyone who has had a vital part to play during the first
#Coronavirus
wave. Do you have a thank you for one of our colleagues or teams? Let us know!
Today marked the go-live of the construction work on Salford Royal’s new £68million hospital. NCA Chief Exec Raj Jain was joined by BAM Construction Manager Rob Bailey & Consultant Dr Sheila Tose to mark the start of the building programme. Read more:
On Thursday we all showed our support for our NHS and stood on the streets and applauded them. If you really want to show your support, stay at home unless absolutely necessary. This will help stop the spread of coronavirus, protect the NHS and save lives.
#StayAtHomeSaveLives
Well done to all our staff who continue to work so incredibly hard to keep our patients safe and well during
#Covid19
Your efforts have helped us to successfully treat and discharge 265 patients from Salford Royal who were diagnosed with Covid-19.
#SafeSecureHereforyou
They smashed it! 100 miles from Salford to Birmingham. Well done to our
#jointhejourney
cyclists raising awareness of
#OrganDonationWeek
Tell your family your organ donor wishes tonight and please register your organ donation decision here
Very happy 91st birthday to Celia Whaley on Ward L2 today! Staff threw Celia, and other ladies in the bay, a birthday tea party complete with chocolate cake. They also decorated her bedside with balloons & cards and sang Happy Birthday. Celia said she was "over the moon" 🎂❤️
A survivor of the Manchester Arena bomb attack is hoping to raise £1m by climbing Kilimanjaro - and he’ll be joined on the journey by some of the people who saved his life. Find out how you can donate here:
We ALL need to do the right thing stop Coronavirus and stay at home. By doing this together we are helping stop the spread of coronavirus and saving lives. If you have to go out keep two metres from anyone.
#StayAtHomeGM
#StayAtHomeSaveLives
#SalfordRoyal
is supplying blood for use on board
@NWAirAmbulance
helicopters, allowing urgent roadside transfusions to take place across the entire North West for the first time.
Find out more about the
#BloodonBoard
partnership on:
Happy
#AHPsDay
to all our Allied Health Professionals - thank you for all the amazing work you do!
Did you know
#AHPs
are the third largest workforce in the
#NHS
?
Well done to all our staff who continue to work so incredibly hard to keep our patients safe and well during
#Covid19
Your efforts have helped us to successfully treat and discharge 298 patients from Salford Royal who were diagnosed with Covid-19.
#SafeSecureHereforyou
Merry Christmas & thank you to all our staff who are working today & across the festive period caring for our patients and service users
#MerryXmasNHS
Please post your festive messages to your
#NHS
heroes and we'll make sure we pass them on for you!
Our porters are amazing! Thank you for all the hard work you put in. See this poster to give you an idea of some of the things they do over a typical month
#NHSheros
#TeamSalford
#porters
Merry Christmas to our brilliant colleagues working at Salford Royal today. Please post your festive messages to your NHS stars and we'll make sure we pass them on for you. All the best to all our followers - we hope you all have a happy, safe and peaceful time.
#MerryXmasNHS
Happy 80th Birthday to Elaine who volunteers in our A&E department.
She has been a volunteer for 19 years and before that was a nurse. The A&E department love her visits and help she gives them.
We are celebrating International
#NursesDay
🎈
Meet Carole Holland, Divisional Director of Nursing for Surgery at Salford Care Organisation and read her career story ⬇️
#IND2023
#SalfordRoyal
Another great story of staff members pulling out all the stops for the people they care for...Amblecote extra care housing residents ensured they were socially distancing during a special game of bingo recently – on their balconies! Balcony bingo ended with a big sing along,
Did you hear about our team of staff and volunteers who have helped to design and make thousands of protective visors for colleagues working on the frontline during the
#COVID19
pandemic.
Find out more:
#NHSheroes
Thank you
@FaithInNature
for donating lots of lovely toiletries for our staff to use. They are now being distributed across the organisation and are very much appreciated.
Happy New Year to our fantastic colleagues working at Salford Royal today. If you’d like to post your New Year greetings to them here, we will pass them on.
We’d like to wish all our followers a safe, peaceful & very happy 2018!
They did it!! Our colleagues Stuart Wildman and Caroline Abbott reached the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro with Martin Hibbert and the
#MartinsMountain
team. Congratulations to you all.
You can still donate here
Salford Royal has become the first Trust in Greater Manchester to carry out a procedure that is speeding up the diagnosis and treatment of
#cancer
patients
Read more on:
#CancerDiagnosis
#CancerTreatment
When 6-year-old Annie decided to raise money for her local hospital, she set to work immediately.
Annie got her brightest, rainbow-coloured, sparkly pipe cleaners & created some beautiful bracelets, which she sold outside her house & raised £100 for Salford Royal.
Thanks Annie!
Today we can confirm that sadly two patients have passed away at Salford Royal. Both patients had tested positive for COVID-19. Our thoughts and condolences remain with the patients’ families and loved ones at this difficult time.
Full statement
You can read our full
@CareQualityComm
report online here Thank you and well done to our fantastic hospital, community and social care colleagues
#outstanding
On behalf of the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission, we are so pleased to announce that 9 NHS brain tumour centres across the UK have been designated as a Tessa Jowell Centre of Excellence, delivering cutting edge science with a human-centred culture of kindness & compassion❤️
Merry Christmas to our brilliant colleagues working at Salford Royal today and in the community.
Please post your festive messages to your NHS stars and we'll make sure we pass them on for you.
All the best to all our followers
#MerryXmasNHS
Thanks to
@gmpolice
who have supplied more than 100 personal attack alarms for use by our staff to help keep them safe during the dark winter nights and mornings.
Our Group Chief Executive Sir David Dalton has recorded a short video thanking staff for their hard work after Salford Royal was rated outstanding by the
@CareQualityComm
Congratulations to all our colleagues.
#proud
@NCAlliance_NHS
Thanks to volunteers from Girlguiding Greater Manchester West who have been recycling the left over material from old hospital curtains and turning them into washbags for our hospital scrubs and uniforms.
We are incredibly grateful for everyone’s continued support of our hard working NHS staff – big thanks to
@Secrethamper
and
@thorntonschocs
for their wonderful, and rather tasty, donations.
#ThankYouNHS
Salford Royal is supplying blood for use on board
@NWAirAmbulance
helicopters, allowing urgent roadside transfusions to take place across the entire North West for the first time.
Find out more about the
#BloodonBoard
partnership on:
Plans have been unveiled for two new developments at Salford Royal – including a state of the art Acute Receiving Centre with a rooftop helipad.
Find out more:
Our multidisciplinary team on ward H2 has been awarded the SWAN award for excellence in palliative, end of life care and bereavement, for teamwork & going the extra mile to provide exceptional end of life care to their patients. Congratulations to the team!
An egg-stra special treat for our hard working critical care teams - thanks to Mrs Murphy, year 2 teacher at St Mary’s Primary School in Swinton for donating this huge Easter egg. Enjoy team!
Have you seen the beautiful Swan tapestry made by our talented colleague in recognition of the care and compassion shown to patients receiving end of life care? It's on display between Hope building and Turnberg building. Thank you Helen.
@fionaDmurphy
More than 150 knitted dementia cannula sleeves have been donated to Salford Royal to help keep patients with dementia calm during treatment.
The single use sleeves are made by volunteers
@HfdnwUkOfficial
and cover cannulas so patients don’t attempt to pull out the needles.
A specialist surgical centre at Salford Royal for patients with stomach and gullet cancer is set to become one of the biggest of its kind in Europe
#GMOG
Find out more on:
We are asking people to help knit pairs of comforting teddy bears for patients and their loved ones during the
#COVID19
pandemic. 🧶
The teddies come as an identical pair, with one being given to the patient and the other to a loved one.
Find out more:
Congratulations to all our colleagues who have been nominated or shortlisted in this year’s Unsung Hero Awards 2019.
Bernard McGinty from our Digital team was nominated in the Everyday Hero IT category 4 times! Good luck everyone
#UHAwards19
A team of staff and volunteers from Salford Royal have helped to design and make thousands of protective visors for colleagues working on the frontline during the
#COVID19
pandemic.
Find out more:
Today we celebrated staff working in the Manchester Centre of Clinical Neurosciences (MCCN) at their Annual Staff awards.
200+ nominations were submitted for teams and individuals by their colleagues for their outstanding work & for keeping up morale. Congratulations everyone!
Thanks to the kind-hearted children at Irlam Primary School for donating lots of wonderful toys to help entertain our young patients in the Panda unit.
Today our community nurse Val Edwards is retiring from the
#NHS
after over 35 years of dedicated service - Val was presented with a Chief Nursing Officer for England excellence badge and certificate by NCA Chief Nurse Elaine Inglesby Burke.
Good luck and thank you Val!
We ALL need to do the right thing stop Coronavirus and stay at home. By doing this together we are helping stop the spread of coronavirus and saving lives. If you have to go out keep two metres from anyone.
#StayAtHomeGM
#StayAtHomeSaveLives
Congratulations to our IBD team, shortlisted in the Patient-Centred Care category for the IBD Portal at the
@RCPLondon
Excellence in Patient Care Awards
#EPCA2018
- winners to be revealed on 29 May.
Huge congratulations to our pharmacy team on winning the
#HSJvalue
Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Award for our Polycystic Kidney Disease Multidisciplinary Clinic's pharmacy-led drug education & management project!