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Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

NHS trust · ODS code RVR

About this trust

Type
NHS acute trust
Hospitals
10 on the CQC register
Website
www.epsom-sthelier.nhs.uk

Care Quality Commission rating

Trust-wide rating, most recent inspection: 2019-09-19.

Good 3 of 4 CQC bands

Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30.

What the CQC inspected

The CQC rates every service against five key questions. These are the ratings from the most recent inspection.

Safe
Requires improvement
Are people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?
Effective
Good
Does care, treatment and support achieve good outcomes and follow the best available evidence?
Caring
Good
Do staff involve and treat people with compassion, kindness, dignity and respect?
Responsive
Good
Are services organised to meet people's needs?
Well-led
Good
Do leadership, management and governance assure high-quality care?

Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30.

What patients said

The NHS Friends and Family Test asks patients whether they would recommend the service. Responses for May 2026.

Inpatient care
94%
would recommend · 837 responses
A&E
69%
would recommend · 35 responses
Outpatient appointments
92%
would recommend · 1,207 responses

NHS England Friends and Family Test, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. The FFT is not a formal performance measure and response rates vary between services.

Cancer waiting times

How quickly this trust diagnoses and starts treatment for people referred with a suspicion of cancer. Data for March 2026. Targets are the NHS operational standards. No English region currently meets the 62-day standard.

62-day treatment
87%
% starting first cancer treatment within 62 days of an urgent GP referral
target 85%
28-day diagnosis
83%
% told they have cancer, or that they do not, within 28 days of an urgent referral
target 75%
31-day treatment
100%
% starting first treatment within 31 days of the decision to treat
target 96%

62-day treatment by cancer type

The share of patients who began treatment within 62 days of an urgent referral, for each type this trust reports. The national aim is 85%. Numbers per type are smaller, so they move more from month to month.

Cancer typeWithin 62 days
Lung69%
Bowel100%
Prostate90%
Skin99%
Gynaecological86%
Head and neck75%
Lymphoma100%
Oesophagus and stomach56%
Liver and bile duct91%
Other urological61%
Other blood100%

NHS England Cancer Waiting Times, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. Provisional monthly data. Small numbers of patients can move a percentage sharply.

Mortality (SHMI)

The Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator compares the number of people who die after care at this trust with the number expected, given how ill the patients were. Rolling 12 months to August 2025.

As expected SHMI 1.111.00 = as expected

NHS Digital, Accredited Official Statistic, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. The SHMI is not a measure of the quality of care and a “higher than expected” band is a flag for further investigation, not a judgement. It must not be used to rank trusts. It does not include deaths of patients receiving palliative care where that is coded.

NHS waiting times, trust-wide

Weeks from referral to treatment for NHS-funded care, across all this trust's sites.

Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment, latest published month.
SpecialtyMedian waitWithin 18 weeksPatients waiting
All specialties11 wks67%57,011
Cardiology14 wks62%3,758
Dermatology16 wks54%3,741
Ear, nose and throat9 wks76%2,325
Elderly medicine13 wks64%222
Gastroenterology11 wks62%3,335
General internal medicine13 wks57%132
General surgery14 wks61%2,560
Gynaecology13 wks62%6,202
Neurology15 wks57%1,833
Ophthalmology6 wks91%2,683
Oral surgery11 wks71%2,130
Other medical services9 wks72%8,880
Other mental health services31 wks0%15
Other services10 wks70%718
Other surgical services10 wks73%1,865
Paediatric services11 wks67%5,884
Respiratory medicine9 wks69%1,317
Rheumatology7 wks81%637
Trauma and orthopaedics12 wks64%6,762
Urology11 wks67%2,012

NHS-funded care only. Retrieved 2026-08-30.

Hospitals in this trust

Each is inspected and rated separately.

Leatherhead

Leatherhead KT22 8SD

CQC rating No CQC rating

The New Epsom and Ewell Community Hospital

Epsom KT19 8PB

CQC rating Good

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Data shown with the date it was retrieved. Waiting times are NHS statistics for the named provider and change every month. How we source and check this.