News and events

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Christopher Elliott as Associate Non-Executive Director.

Researchers, clinicians and health and social care staff celebrated clinical research at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust for this year’s International Clinical Trials Day.

St Helier Hospital can now offer patients, visitors and staff a quiet corner of calm, thanks to a new secret garden (complete with two giraffe statues) that opened on Wednesday 23 May, just outside Ferguson House.

An inline skater who was cared for at St Helier Hospital as he recovered from a life-threatening brain injury is set to launch a new initiative to encourage skaters to wear helmets.

As the pollen season gets into full swing and temperatures rise, the misery of hay fever begins for some people – prompting doctors at Epsom and St Helier hospitals to issue some advice and top tips for hay fever sufferers.

A new state-of-the art X-ray machine worth £61,000 has been unveiled in the operating theatres at Epsom Hospital, allowing surgeons, radiographers and the operating theatre staff to see live diagnostic X-ray images of the patient more clearly than ever before.

Following its inspection in November 2015, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) re-inspected some of the services at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust in January this year and has improved its assessment on two of its five key areas, rating the Trust  ‘Good’ for caring and responsive. 

NHS Sutton Clinical Commissioning Group’s Governing Body has agreed to directly award an interim, transitional contract for Sutton Community Services to the Sutton Health and Care Provider Alliance (with Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust hosting the contract) for a period of one plus one years (April 2019 to March 2021).