Project Overview

DAY Project Management worked in partnership with Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) to deliver the state of the art Greater Manchester Major Trauma Hospital on the Salford Royal Site. DAY Project Management had been instrumental in the tender and value engineering process prior to the appointment of the PSCP using the P22 Framework. The GMMTH was one of the first of the Governments New Hospital Programme’ buildings to be successfully delivered. Works commenced on site in February 2021 with the six-storey building being completed in August 2023.  

As part of the New Hospitals Programme, NCA aspired to offer the highest level of emergency response care to patients from the Greater Manchester region and beyond. The development is also to support the improvements in the Stroke Pathway in the context of Intra-Arterial Therapy (IAT) business case and delivery of non-trauma urgent care.

The building enables the trauma patients to arrive promptly via ambulance and air ambulance. Featuring a helipad to the top level of the built, a direct lift access is enabled into the Resuscitation Department, Theatres and Critical Care. The facility is connected to the Hope Hospital at Salford Royal Hospital with direct access at Level 01 and Level 03 to relieve the stretch from the existing overstretched A&E services. Due to interconnections with a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) Building, the project required a management of the PFI contract and relevant stakeholders.

The award winning GMMTH boasts a number of UK and European firsts. The direct access helipad allows a reduction of transfer time from twenty minutes to ninety seconds. The UK’s first ‘Resuscitation with angiography, percutaneous techniques and operative repair’ (RAPTOR) theatre is also sited within the GMMTH and allows patients with multiple injuries to receive treatment from various specialist teams simultaneously. The facility also includes a twelve bed Emergency Resus Department, CT Scanners, MRI and Xray facilities, five theatres and resus areas, along with three floors dedicated to recovery wards.

The build was successful delivered through Covid 19 on a live hospital site surrounded by an active blue light route. The build is now live and is a genuine flagship life-saving build for NCA, Greater Manchester and the North West.