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Our Services
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides an extensive range of medical services to over 490,000 people in south west London and north east Surrey. We operate two busy general hospitals, Epsom Hospital and St Helier Hospital, and run services from other locations, including the former Sutton Hospital site.
St Helier Hospital is home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children, while Epsom Hospital is home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC). Both Epsom and St Helier hospitals have accident and emergency departments (A&E) and maternity services.
With more than 900,000 people coming to our hospitals for care and treatment every year, our team of over 5,000 staff and 500 volunteers work around the clock to keep our busy hospitals running smoothly.
As teaching hospitals, we play a key role in the education and training of tomorrow’s doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. Both sites work in partnership with St George’s Hospital and St George’s Medical School in south London to deliver high quality education and research. Outside St George’s Hospital, we support the education of more medical students than any other teaching hospital in south London.
We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas.
We are working in partnership to deliver care in new innovative ways.
Health Infrastructure Plan (HIP1) Improving Healthcare Together
As part of the Governments Health Infrastructure Plan (HIP1), Epsom and St Helier Hospitals NHS Trust has been allocated funding to build a new hospital. The funding of £500 million will build us a brand new specialist emergency care hospital with 500 beds for our sickest patients, increasing the percentage of single rooms we have from 20% to 50%, improving the layout and placement of different departments so we can all work more closely and more efficiently together, and a huge refurbishment programme for Epsom and St Helier. It will help us to overcome our workforce issues (so no more worrying gaps in the rota), will mean people can be cared for in environments where there’s enough space to get the job done and protect patients’ privacy and dignity, and will mean that we can deliver on all of the quality standards that people expect of a modern NHS.
This is a very exciting time for the Trust as we continue to invest in services and our estate. The allocation of £500 million will improve the current buildings at Epsom and St Helier hospitals as well as build a new specialist emergency care hospital on one of the three sites – Epsom, St Helier or Sutton. Our Clinical Commissioning Groups have recently held a public consultation on proposals for:
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the majority of services remaining at Epsom and St Helier hospitals in refurbished buildings, with both hospitals running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with urgent treatment centres at each hospital, and
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bringing together six core (major) services for the most unwell patients, those who need more specialist care, and births in hospital, onto one site in new state-of-the art buildings. This would mean that specialist doctors, nurses and clinical staff would be able to work together to provide round-the-clock specialist care. These services could be located at Epsom Hospital, St Helier Hospital or Sutton Hospital, but our preferred option is Sutton Hospital.
The public consultation has now closed and over the summer we are looking forward to the consultation outcome. This will mark the next phase of our exciting future.
Sutton Health & Care
Sutton Health and Care is a pioneering partnership made up of the GP federation in Sutton, the London Borough of Sutton, South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust and Epsom and St Helier hospitals. Working together, we provide community services in Sutton, caring for adults in their own homes across the borough, providing children’s community health services, and sexual health services.
Surrey Downs Health & Care
Surrey Downs Health and Care is an innovative partnership between local NHS organisations to provide adult community health services in Surrey Downs (that’s the Epsom, Dorking and East Elmbridge areas).
Our Values
Together with our local commissioners in Surrey, Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.
At the heart of our work is a set of beliefs – a set of values that we all support. Our values drive us to keep on improving the service we provide to our patients and their loved ones. It also guides the way in which we work together as staff and volunteers, and how we treat each other.
Above all we value RESPECT.
It helps us to live our behaviours:
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Kind
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Positive
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Professional
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Teamwork
So we can achieve our mission: to deliver great care to every patient, every day.
Our Strategy & Annual Reports
To find out more about Epsom & St Helier's strategy, as well as some more information on our accounts, please follow the links below:
Training and Development Accreditation
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust are committed to supporting their employees’ training and professional development. The Trust is proud to be accredited partners with ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA and AAT.
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HMFA Award
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, Sutton CCG and Surrey Downs CCG took home the award for Governance at the National Healthcare Finance Awards in central London. The prestigious annual awards celebrate excellence in financial departments across the NHS and are awarded by the Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA).
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, Sutton CCG and Surrey Downs CCG were chosen to receive the accolade from a strong shortlist from across the UK. The Awards judge organisations, teams and individual finance professionals by looking at elements including fiscal success, governance, people management, communications, ethics, sustainability and learning.
A total of eight awards were awarded, ranging from the Innovation Award to the Finance Director of the Year Award.
HFMA outgoing president and chief finance officer at Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, Bill Gregory, said: ‘We were pleased to receive a very high-calibre of entries for the National Healthcare Finance Awards. NHS staff across the country are working extremely hard to innovate, lead by example, and ensure good quality healthcare. It is important to celebrate their commitment and the dedication of sector leaders. Huge congratulations to Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, Sutton CCG and Surrey Downs CCG for this well-deserved achievement, which once again highlights the strength of our NHS staff.’
There has never been a better time to join team Epsom and St Helier – with an annual turnover of £400 million (and growing), we just have secured a record £500 million to create a brand new Specialist Emergency Care Hospital to care for our sickest patients.
As a busy NHS hospital trust that also runs community services in Sutton and Surrey, we are taking on new and unprecedented projects and challenges, and we need to expand our award-winning Finance Team. Could you be the perfect candidate? If you want a job in finance that has true meaning, if you can work under pressure and on multiple projects, then a job at Epsom and St Helier could be your ideal new role.
With exciting development opportunities ahead and a commitment to continuing professional training for our staff, Epsom and St Helier is a fantastic place to work. And as we take the exciting next steps into a bright and busy future, complete with a half a billion investment into our services, this role in finance will be vital to the smooth running of our hospitals and community services. Our multi-million pound investment will transform patient care for the 500,000 people who use the Trust’s services, greatly improve the experience of the 6,000 committed staff working in the hospitals and secure a long term and sustainable future for hospital services in our area. It will allow the Trust to create a state-of-the-art hospital facilities for the sickest patients, invest in and refurbish the older parts of all our hospital buildings (which are currently not fit for modern healthcare), and support the medical workforce to improve staffing levels and patient care.
But of course, the NHS has to operate in a tight financial envelope and we have to make the best use of tax payers’ money for the benefit of the people we care for – we need skilled financial professionals to help us achieve our goals and overcome our challenges.