HSMC works with Manchester Business School to provide the educational component of the NHS Management Training Scheme (MTS) - voted the UK’s most popular scheme in 2014-15 by over 27,000 students in The Guardian’s annual UK 300 survey. The MTS has come top for the second year in a row, beating off both public and private sector schemes from organisations such as the BBC, Google, Microsoft, Jaguar, John Lewis and Rolls Royce. This is only one of many awards the scheme has won over recent years (see below for further information) – and is a major achievement in difficult policy and financial circumstances.