The Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is based in the town of Farnworth

Farnworth

Farnworth is within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. It is located southeast of Bolton, 6 miles south-west of Bury , and northwest of Manchester....

 in Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...

 (Previously based just outside the town centre opposite Queens Park). It provides NHS

National Health Service

The National Health Service is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. They provide a comprehensive range of health services, the vast majority of which are free at the point of use to residents of the United Kingdom...

 health care services for the people in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton

Metropolitan Borough of Bolton

The Metropolitan Borough of Bolton is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It is named after its largest settlement, Bolton, but covers a far larger area which includes Blackrod, Farnworth, Horwich, Kearsley and Westhoughton, and a suburban and rural element from the West Pennine...

 and surrounding areas. Prior to its acquisition of Foundation Trust

NHS Foundation Trust

An NHS foundation trust is part of the National Health Service in England and has gained a degree of independence from the Department of Health and local NHS strategic health authority.Foundation Trusts are represented by the , .-Function:...

 status in October 2008, the trust was known as Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust.

Services

The Trust is largely based on one site, the Royal Bolton Hospital in Farnworth

Farnworth

Farnworth is within the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton in Greater Manchester, England. It is located southeast of Bolton, 6 miles south-west of Bury , and northwest of Manchester....

, although some services are provided in other locations within the wider Metropolitan Borough of Bolton

Metropolitan Borough of Bolton

The Metropolitan Borough of Bolton is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. It is named after its largest settlement, Bolton, but covers a far larger area which includes Blackrod, Farnworth, Horwich, Kearsley and Westhoughton, and a suburban and rural element from the West Pennine...

.

Other NHS Trusts on-site

On-site mental health services are provided by Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, and include wards K1-3, Maple House (Psychiatric Intensive Care), Hazelwood, Redwood and Hawthorn House.
NHS Bolton (formerly Bolton Primary Care Trust) operates some services on site, including Genito-Urinary Medicine and the BCU (Bolton Community Unit) intermediate care facility.
Additionally, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust maintains a Renal Dialysis Unit on site.

Making It Better

Under the "Making it Better" development plan for Greater Manchester's hospitals, the Royal Bolton Hospital will become one of the three sites to have specialised paediatric and neonatal services.

Royal Bolton Hospital

The Royal Bolton Hospital is one of the busiest NHS hospitals in the North West and the busiest in Greater Manchester, having over 32,000 admissions in 2007/8 year.

Wards

• A4 - Acute Stroke Unit (ASU)
• B1 - Paediatrics
• B2 - Discharge Lounge/Planned Investigation Unit (PIU)
• B3/B4 - Complex Care / Endocrine
• C1 - Cardiology and Coronary Care Unit (CCU)
• C2 - Female Complex Care
• C3 - Gastroeneterology
• C4 - Orthopaedics
• D1/D2 - Acute Medical Assessment Unit (AMRU)
• D3/D4 - Respiratory Medicine
• E3/E4 - General Surgery
• F3 - Surgical Assessment Unit (SAU)
• F4 - Orthopaedics/Urology
• F5 - Breast Surgery/ENT
• F6 - Elective Surgery/High Dependency Unit (HDU)
• G3 - Orthopaedics/Trauma Stabilisation Unit (TSU)
• G4 - Orthopaedics
• G5 - Paediatric Assessment Unit/Paediatric Surgery
• G6 - Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
• H1 - Women's Health Unit
• H2 - Ophthalmology/Day Surgery
• H3 - Bolton Community Unit (BCU)
• J1 - 65+ psychiatric ward
• J2/Redwood - 65+ psychiatric ward
• K1 - Psychiatric ward
• K2 - Psychiatric ward
• K3 - Psychiatric ward
• Maple House - Psychiatric intensive care unit ward
• M1 - Gynaecology
• M2 - Ante-Natal Unit
• M3-M6 - Obstetrics & Maternity
• N3 - Complex Care
• N4 - Stroke Rehabilitation Unit

Other facilities at the Royal Bolton Hospital include:

• Accident and Emergency (incorporating Children's A&E)
• Bolton Breast Unit (which covers Bolton, Bury
  Bury
  Bury is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the River Irwell, east of Bolton, west-southwest of Rochdale, and north-northwest of the city of Manchester...
  
   and parts of Wigan
  Wigan
  Wigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England. It stands on the River Douglas, south-west of Bolton, north of Warrington and west-northwest of Manchester. Wigan is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its administrative centre. The town of Wigan had a total...
  
  )
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
• Endoscopy (including dedicated Bowel Cancer Screening unit)
• Pathology; including Haematology, Microbiology and Clinical Biochemistry
• Radiology

Education

The Trust is an Associated Teaching Hospital allied to Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, and contributes to the training of medical students from The University of Manchester.

A large number of Nursing students from the University of Salford

University of Salford

The University of Salford is a campus university based in Salford, Greater Manchester, England with approximately 20,000 registered students. The main campus is about west of Manchester city centre, on the A6, opposite the former home of the physicist, James Prescott Joule and the Working Class...

train at Bolton in each of the Adult, Child and Mental Health disclipines.

External links

• Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust