Professor Smeeta Sinha is a Consultant Nephrologist at Salford Royal Hospital, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Professor at the University of Manchester. She was the Clinical Director for Renal services at Salford Royal between 2014 and 2020 and oversaw the delivery of kidney care centres across the North of Greater Manchester. These kidney care centres have enabled patients to receive kidney care closer to home. In early 2021, Smeeta was appointed as the Northern Care Alliance Research & Innovation Deputy Director and in 2022 was appointed as National Clinical Director for Renal Medicine by NHS England. She is passionate about innovation and improvement and ensuring patients have access to the services they need. Smeeta provides clinical leadership with a focus on innovation and improvement which will further develop systems that enable findings from projects to be translated across services.
Smeeta’s clinical interests are in CKD, cardio-renal-metabolic disease and glomerulonephritis. She leads the complex glomerulonephritis service at Salford Royal which is an integrated clinical and research clinic serving a population of 1.6 million.