Liverpool University Hospitals was created on 1 October 2019, bringing together the two adult acute Trusts in Liverpool – Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust. The purpose of this clinically led merger was to enable us to transform the way we deliver healthcare for our patients across the city region.

LUHFT is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, with 1,600 beds, over 13,000 staff and a £1.1 billion turnover, serving a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside, as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West of England and beyond.

Deprivation and poor health outcomes affect many of our communities. Differences in healthy life expectancy and quality of life vary significantly. The Trust has a key role to play, as an anchor institution in the city of Liverpool, in working closely with partners across the wider system to address health inequalities and to achieve the best possible life chances for local people.