Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS Foundation Trust operating in the South of England. The trust was created on 1 October 2014 by the acquisition of Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust by Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the first ever merger of two NHS Foundation Trusts. It runs Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot, Wexham Park Hospital near Slough, Berkshire, and Frimley Park Hospital in Frimley, Surrey.

The Trust serves a population of approximately 800,000, spanning Surrey, NW Hampshire, East Berkshire and South Buckinhamshire. The two acute sites are based at Frimley Park and Wexham Park Hospitals with Heatherwood Hospital serving as an elective base. The combined non-elective activity exceeds 220,000 attendances per annum through the Emergency Departments, ranking it within the top 10 for activity in England. The Trust provides a broad range of secondary care services as well as tertiary primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI), hyper-acute stroke services, vascular and plastic surgery.

The Care Quality Commission has rated the Frimley Park site as 'outstanding' and Wexham Park and Heatherwood Hospitals as 'good'.

The Trust is led by a Trust Board consisting of 7 executive and 8 non-executive directors. Sir Andrew Morris has been the chief executive since 1991. As a foundation trust there is an elected council of governors. In May 2017 the trust decided to reduce the number of governors from 37 to 22, saying the council of governors needed to be more effective.

The Trust has secured funding to build both a new emergency room, as well as a care unit for infants and mothers, at Wexham Park, and plans to build an elective centre at the Heatherwood location. The three Berkshire Clinical commissioning groups complained that they had been asked to provide £11m extra funding to support the trust’s “integration costs” over the next few years, in addition to normal payments for activity.

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