In 2014, Dr. Fairfield, the Chief Executive of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust moved to the trust on the retirement of John Saxby. In April 2016, Sir David Dalton was appointed to take over the leadership of the trust and the functions of the board were taken over by directors from Salford Royal Foundation Trust, although Pennine<unk>  still had a legal existence. In 2020, it became necessary to re-establish the board because of complexities involved in formally transferring its assets to other trusts. It was intended to disband it by April 2020. The hospitals in Oldham, Bury and Rochdale would continue to be run by Salford, while North Manchester hospital would be run by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust under a management agreement. The other trusts are resisting taking over the liabilities associated with these hospitals, and North Manchester is said to require rebuilding at a cost of around £500 million. The re-established board will not be involved in the management of the hospitals. Northern Care Alliance In December 2017, it was announced that the trust was to form a new healthcare organisation by combining with Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust. The new organisation, the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group would have 17,000 staff, and a combined operating budget of £1.3bn covering Oldham, Bury and Rochdale, and Salford. North Manchester General Hospital would be taken over by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. In April 2019, Raj Jain became chief executive of Northern Care Alliance NHS Group and of Pennine<unk>  Trust. The Alliance is Greater Manchester’s first Global Digital Exemplar Fast Follower organisation, investing £10 million in digital technology for patient care systems across its hospitals in Bury, Oldham, Rochdale and North Manchester which will replicate projects already deployed at the Salford trust, including an online appointment management system for patients. In 2019 the trust had 650 physical and virtual servers and more than 30 clinical systems, some of which had proved increasingly unreliable.
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Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
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Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust
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