Stockport NHS Foundation Trust runs Stepping Hill Hospital.
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services for children and adults across Stockport and the High Peak area of Derbyshire, as well as community health services for Stockport, Tameside and Glossop. Ann Barnes is the Trust's Chief Executive and Gillian Easson is the Trust's Chairman. On 1 April 2004 Foundation Trust status was established, one of the first NHS organisations in the country to achieve the foundation trust position. The Trust provides acute hospital care predominantly across Stockport and the High Peak and employs over 5,800 staff working across two hospital sites and over 41 community clinics. A new £20 million medical and surgical centre with 120 bed spaces, an acute medical unit, a surgical assessment unit, and a short stay surgical unit and 18 operating theatres opened in October 2016 for emergency and high risk general surgery. It has capacity for more than 30,000 operations every year.
Stockport NHS Trust formed in April 2000, following the merger of Stockport Acute Services and Stockport Healthcare NHS Trust. The organisation became a foundation trust in 2004 - one of the first ten foundation trusts in the UK. The Trust was the first in the country to achieve Clinical Pathology Accreditation for their point of care testing in December 2011. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust was the first in the country to be awarded international ISO accreditation for emergency planning - April 2013.
It was agreed in July 2015 that Stepping Hill Hospital should be one of the four centres for emergency surgery in Greater Manchester.
In the last quarter of 2015 it had one of the worst performances of any hospital in England against the four hour waiting target.
In July 2016 the trust announced plans that could reduce its staffing establishment by 7% after it ended 2015-16 with a deficit of £12.9 million.