About the Trust
Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust was formed following the merger of the separate Ashford Hospital & St. Peter’s Hospital NHS Trusts. This took effect from 1st April 1998. The Trust manages two sites - Ashford in Middlesex and St. Peter’s in Chertsey, Surrey.
Ashford Hospital
Ashford Hospital situated on the A30 to the west of London, close to the junction 13 of the M25 and Heathrow Airport. The hospital continues to provide a wide range of medical and mainly day surgical services, outpatients services, ophthalmology, and a dedicated stroke rehabilitation unit and now includes the Walk-In Centre and Rapid Access Centre.
The main centres of population served by the hospital are Ashford, Staines, Sunbury, Shepperton, Feltham, Hanworth, Bedfont, Hampton, Teddington, Wraysbury and Heathrow Airport.
With the recent closure of the West Wing all the wards and departments are located in buildings opened in 1995. The Education Centre is in the newest part of the building and provides a focus for training activities in the hospital, including a well equipped library with computerised access, and a state of the art lecture theatre.
St Peters Hospital
St. Peter’s Hospital, Chertsey is situated in greenbelt parkland between Woking and Chertsey near junction 11 of the M25. It is 30 miles south west of central London and 10 miles from Heathrow Airport.
The main centres of population served by the hospital are Woking, Weybridge, Chertsey, Staines and Walton on Thames. Originally St. Peter’s Hospital was built to serve casualties of the Second World War. Over the years, the Hospital has been rebuilt, developed and extended to include maternity services, a department/clinic area and a new theatre complex.
Foundation Status
We are delighted to be applying for NHS Foundation Trust status. Becoming an NHS Foundation Trust will give us greater freedom and scope to provide even better services for our patients and the communities that we serve.
What is a foundation trust?
Foundation Trusts (FTs) are a new type of NHS Trust in England and have been created to devolve decision making from central government control to local organizations and communities, so they are more responsive to the needs and wishes of their local people.
The introduction of Foundation Trusts represents a profound change in the history of the NHS and the way in which hospital services are managed and provided. To date, there are 109 NHS Foundation Trusts in England.
In short:
- A Foundation Trust is set up in law as a legally independent organisation called a Public Benefit Corporation Community Health and Standards Act 2003)
- Its primary purpose is to provide NHS services to patients according to NHS principles and standards
- It is free care based on need and not ability to pay
- Local communities have ‘ownership’ of their Foundation Trust, through membership and a Council of Governors.
Why do we want to become a Foundation Trust?
There are two main benefits of becoming a Foundation Trust:
- We want to ensure that we provide the right care and high quality of services for our local community. This means fully understanding what the community require, and listening and involving patients, their carers, local people and our staff.
- We can reinvest any surpluses of income that we generate back into our Trust. This would give us greater control in running our finances and shaping the future of our organisation - which in turn will maximise benefits to our patients.
Although we are in the very early stages of the process we hope to be in a position to hold a public consultation on our Foundation Trust proposals early spring 2009. This means we will hold public meetings, discussion groups and forums in each constituency asking for you to participate.
Clinical Services
At Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Trust we provide a wide range of clinical services covering surgical, medical and oncological (cancer) treatments and interventions.
Below is a list of services that we provide:
Accident and Emergency
Acute Pain Management
Anaesthetics
Breast Surgery
Cardiology
Care of the Elderly
Clinical Haematology
Critical Care
Colorectal Surgery
Dermatology
Diabetes and Endocrinology
Dietetics
Ear, Nose and Throat
Gastroenterology
General Surgery
Genito-Urinary Medicine
Gynaecology
Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery
Medical Assessment Unit
Neurology
Neurophysiology
Nuclear Medicine
Obstetrics
Occupational Therapy
Oncology
Ophthalmology
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Paediatrics
Pain Management / Chronic Pain
Palliative Medicine
Pathology
Physiotherapy
Podiatry
Radiology
Rapid Access Centre
Renal Services
Respiratory Medicine
Rheumatology
Speech and Language Therapy
Trauma and Orthopaedics
Upper GI Surgery
Urology
Vascular Surgery
Walk-In-Centre
