The £54 million building is known as the Thrive Health and Wellbeing Centre to reflect its function to provide first class teaching spaces as well as to enrich health and wellbeing provision in the community. The University’s students and researchers will work in spaces which are identical to real NHS-type clinical settings. Podiatry, Prosthetics and Orthotics and Sports Rehabilitation are just some of the courses which will be taught there. A Movement Analysis Lab on the ground floor will also study the efficiency of limb aids and will be used for research by some of the UK’s most respected prosthetics specialists.

The new building will also be a community focus for public services delivered by our partners, with plans now being explored for mother and child health sessions, weight management clinics and other wellbeing forums. The site is a key part of the University’s multi-million pound Campus Connectivity Plan, which will benefit staff, students and the local community. The new building will also complement Salford City Council’s wider Crescent Salford development scheme.