About Us

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust was established on 1 April 2004. We provide hospital care for children and adults across Stockport and the High Peak. On 25 April 2011 Community Health Services for Tameside and Glossop were transferred to our Trust.

We employ over 5,500 staff. Our major hospital is Stepping Hill located south of Stockport town centre. We also provide hospital services from Cherry Tree Hospital, The Meadows and the Corbar Maternity Unit in Buxton. Community health services in Tameside and Glossop are run across 17 sites including Shire Hill Hospital, Union Street Clinic in Hyde, Hattersley Clinic, Ashton and Glossop Primary Care Centres.

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.

Download our Introduction to Stockport Foundation NHS Trust brochure here.

About Us