The Gastrointestinal Sciences Research is a collaboration between The University of Manchester and Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Trust. This highly successful unit comprises academic physicians, surgeons, biologists and health service researchers together with health service colleagues based at Hope Hospital.

The group offers a comprehensive clinical service to the North West region in gastroenterology and, in particular, tertiary care specialty services in endoscopy, upper and lower gastrointestinal surgery, intestinal failure and parenteral nutrition, inflammatory bowel disease, functional bowel disease care and gastrointestinal physiology.