Media Centre

Welcome to the on-line media centre for Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The Trust's communications team manages all media enquiries, plus requests for filming and photography throughout all our hospitals:

• Manchester Royal Eye Hospital
• Manchester Royal Infirmary
• Royal Manchester Children's Hospital
• Saint Mary's Hospital
• The University Dental Hospital.

The team provides a service for journalists and can help with:

• General enquiries regarding all our hospitals and the services they offer
• Arranging experts to comment on a wide range of specialist and general healthcare issues
• Filming and photography requests
• Background briefings, facts, statistics and case studies to support stories about us.

All media enquiries should be directed to the Communications Team on tel: 0161 276 8763 email: comms@cmft.nhs.uk where they will be directed appropriately. See communications team for additional information.

If you have an urgent media enquiry relating to our hospitals at evenings and at weekends, please call the switchboard number 0161 276 1234 and you will be directed to the on-call communications lead.

Our Media Centre provides:

• The latest news releases and archive information
• Contact details for the communications team
• Media advice - photography and filming requests, patient confidentiality and condition checks
• A virtual tour of the new hospital development and audio interviews with key personnel