A healthcare workers' apprenticeship scheme run by the trust which administers hospital services for more than a million people across Greater Manchester has been told it 'requires improvement'.
This follows the first full inspection by Ofsted into the programme launched by the Northern Care Alliance Alliance Foundation Trust in 2017.
The trust delivers health services across Salford, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, as well as providing more specialist services to patients from Greater Manchester and beyond.
Patients may receive a range of health and social care services at their home or in their community or be treated in one of four of the trust's hospitals - Salford Royal, The Royal Oldham, Rochdale Infirmary and Fairfield General in Bury.
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