About Us

We provide hospital and community health services for children and adults in Stockport and the High Peak, as well as community health services across Tameside and Glossop.

Our aim is to:

  • deliver safe, high quality care.

  • provide the best possible care – in the right place.

  • treat people with respect, and to always communicate in a clear and open way.

We have good national ratings, with the third best mortality rates in the North of England and national recognition for our maternity and urology services.

We were one of the first Foundation Trusts in the country and have around 17,500 members.

Our annual income is around £275 million and we employ over 5,700 staff – making us the second largest employer in Stockport after the council. Our trauma & orthopaedics department is one of the largest in the country.

The hospitals we run are Stepping Hill Hospital (Stockport), Shire Hill Hospital (Glossop), the Devonshire Centre for Neuro-rehabilitation (Stockport) and The Meadows palliative care centre (Stockport). Our community services are delivered from 24 locations in Stockport and 17 locations across Tameside and Glossop. We also run Swanbourne Gardens in Cheadle Heath, which provides overnight breaks for children and young people, between the ages of 5-16 with severe learning disabilities and additional health needs.

We provide the following hospital services in Stockport and High Peak:

  • Accident and emergency

  • Anaesthetics

  • Breast surgery

  • Community medicine

  • Dermatology

  • Ear, nose and throat

  • General medicine

  • General surgery

  • Genito-urinary medicine

  • Gynaecology

  • Haematology

  • Medical oncology

  • Neurology

  • Neurosurgery

  • Obstetrics

  • Ophthalmology

  • Oral Surgery

  • Orthodontics

  • Paediatrics

  • Rehabilitation medicine

  • Rheumatology

  • Trauma and orthopaedics

  • Urology

We also deliver the following community health services in Tameside and Glossop:

  • Asylum Seekers & Refugees

  • Children’s Healthy Nutrition and Obesity Prevention

  • Children’s Safeguarding

  • Children’s Speech and Language Therapy

  • Community Assessment and Rapid Access (CARA)

  • Community Equipment

  • Community Physiotherapy

  • Continence

  • Diabetes and Vascular

  • Dietetics

  • District Nursing

  • Early Attachment

  • Falls and Osteoporosis

  • Health Mentors

  • Health Visiting

  • Heart Failure

  • HIV

  • Infant feeding

  • Infection Prevention

  • Integrated Service for Children with Additional Needs (ISCAN)

  • Intermediate Care (Shire Hill Hospital and the Lakes Centre)

  • Language Interpretation and Patient Support (LIPS)

  • Learning Disability

  • Long Term Conditions

  • Macmillan Nursing and Palliative Care

  • Orthoptics & Optometry

  • Parenting

  • Physiotherapy (Outpatients)

  • Podiatry

  • School Nursing

  • Sexual Health Service

  • Speech and Language Therapy - Adults

  • SPRINT

  • Stroke Rehabilitation Service

  • Tissue Viability including Complex Wounds and Lymphoedema

  • Transfer

  • Wheelchairs

These services are delivered through our business groups which are supported by a range of corporate services. Please click here to view our corporate management structure.

Overall responsibility for delivering services rests with the Board of Directors who are accountable for operational performance as well as the definition and implementation of strategy and policy.

As a Foundation Trust we also have a Board of Governors who are the voice of the local community, the majority of whom are elected from our public membership.

Our aim is to become the 'hospital of choice' for the people of Stockport and the High Peak.

About Us