Type NHS hospital trust Chief Exec Suzanne Rankin | Chair Aileen McLeish Phone +44 1932 872000 | |
Created December 2010 (2010-12) Website www.ashfordstpeters.nhs.uk Address Bournewood House, Guildford Rd, Lyne, Chertsey KT16 0QA, UK Similar St Peter's Hospital, Frimley Park Hospital, BMI The Runnyme Hospital, North West Surrey Mental H, Radio Wey Profiles | ||
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a medium sized district general hospital working across two sites in Surrey: St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey and Ashford Hospital.
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History
Ashford Hospital was developed from the former Staines Workhouse Infirmary which had been operated as an emergency hospital during World War II. St Peter's had been developed on the Botleys Park site in Chertsey.
Ashford Hospital & St. Peter’s Hospital NHS Trusts were merged on 1 April 1998. It became a Foundation Trust in December 2010.
A plan for the trust to take over Epsom General Hospital was abandoned in October 2012 by NHS London board because a financially viable plan for the future of Epsom hospital as part of the merged trust could not be developed. In May 2014 it was reported that the Trust was proposing to merge with Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The proposed merger was abandoned in November 2016.
Performance
In October 2013 the trust was categorised as a band six, the best rating, in a hospital intelligence monitoring report published by the Care Quality Commission.
The Trust did poorly in the last cancer patient experience survey and has agreed to pair up with St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which did very well, in a scheme intended to “spread and accelerate innovative practice via peer to peer support and learning”.
Two of Ashford Hospital’s wards, used by the elderly for rehabilitation care, were closed in June 2015 after a review carried out by the Clinical Commissioning Group found patients recovered better away from acute hospitals. Rehabilitation will in future be at Walton Community Hospital, Woking Hospital, nursing homes or at patients' own homes.
Suzanne Rankin, the Chief Executive, was formerly senior nursing officer with Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service where she served in the first Gulf War.