About Us
Our organisation and main site
Our primary site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting, is one of the UK’s leading teaching hospitals. It shares its campus with St George’s, University of London, which trains future medical professionals and conducts cutting-edge medical research. Additionally, St George’s Hospital hosts the joint Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education, a partnership between St George’s, University of London and Kingston University, which trains a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
With more than 10,000 staff, we are one of the largest healthcare providers in the country. Despite our size, we maintain a strong sense of community and close ties with the local populations we serve. Our international recognition as a leader in research and innovation allows us to attract talent from across the globe.
Through our two primary hospital site – St George’s Hospital in Tooting and Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton – we provide essential healthcare services to a population of 1.3 million people.
In addition to general healthcare services, we provide a range of tertiary services in specialised areas such as neurosciences and paediatric medicine, extending care to approximately 3.5 million people across Surrey and Sussex. We also offer highly specialised services, including complex pelvic trauma and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases, to patients from the wider southwest of England and beyond.
Specialist and Trauma Care
St George’s plays a crucial role in London’s healthcare system, being one of the city’s four major trauma centres. We are home to hyper-acute stroke and heart attack centres, and we operate one of London’s four helipads, ensuring that we can treat the most severely injured and critically ill patients from across southern England.
We are a major centre for cancer care, with St George’s Hospital being one of only two designated children’s cancer centres in London. We are also the seventh largest provider of cancer surgery and chemotherapy in the capital.
In terms of paediatric care, St George’s is one of London’s largest children’s hospitals. We are home to one of only four paediatric trauma units in London, and we host the only paediatric intensive care unit in southwest London. Additionally, we are recognised as one of the top three centres for specialist paediatric surgery in the capital and a centre of excellence in foetal medicine.
Formation of the Hospital Group
In recent years, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust have strengthened their ties, culminating in the formation of a Hospital Group. This partnership enhances the delivery of healthcare services by enabling more integrated decision-making, a stronger and more resilient clinical workforce, and improved access to a wider range of services for our patients.
Jacqueline Totterdell was appointed Group Chief Executive in August 2021, and Gillian Norton has served as Chair of both Trusts since 2019. Although Epsom and St Helier and St George’s remain separate Trusts, they now share a single executive team, allowing us to build on our combined strengths and collaborate more effectively.
We already operate joint services, such as the South West London pathology network, and are in the process of developing a specialist kidney unit to improve patient care across the group.
