Our partners
Our partners
Group Model with Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
In October 2024, a decision was made by board members of Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust and Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to establish a group model. This was then followed by the appointment of Louise Stead as Group Chief Executive in January 2025, overseeing both trusts.
The group is collaboration between our two trusts; each of which have remained separate organisations and maintained dedicated executive teams, boards and council of governors.
We are natural partners; sharing similar geography and an overlap in the populations served. Both trusts are of a similar size and have complementary services and expertise.
The group model is a step forward in enabling greater, clinically-led, collaboration between services across our hospital sites, for the benefit of patients and staff.
Surrey Heartlands health and care partnership
We are part of Surrey Heartlands – a partnership of health and care organisations working together with staff, patients, their carers, families and members of the public, to manage local services and support people to live healthier lives.
Together we are known as an ‘Integrated Care System’ – partnerships where health organisations, the local authorities and others take a collective responsibility for improving the health of the local population, managing resources and making sure services are high quality.
You can read more about the partnership on the Surrey Heartlands website.
Surrey Heartlands Trust Provider Collaborative
Surrey Heartlands Trust Provider Collaborative (TPC) is a partnership of acute trusts committed to improving patient outcomes in ways which are fair, sustainable, efficient and innovative.
Established in July 2023, the TPC consists of four acute hospital and mental health organisations:
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
- Surrey and Borders Partnership Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
We recognise that by working together we are better able to meet the challenges of increasing demand for services, reducing health inequalities, the pressures on our workforce, and financial sustainability, so that the communities we collectively serve receive the quality of services that they rightly expect, in a timely way. We work together across a number of key work streams, such as elective care, maternity, acute paediatrics, endoscopy, mental health and systematic anti-cancer therapy.