Member organisations

• NHS Trusts
• Universities 
• London boroughs
• NHS south west London

NHS Trusts

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
(formerly Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust and Croydon Community Health Services).
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provides hospital and community-based services from a number of locations in Croydon, including Croydon University Hospital (formerly Mayday University Hospital), Purley Hospital, and the Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre in Thornton Heath. The Trust was formed on 1 August 2010 following the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. It employs some 3,500 staff who provide services for more than 340,000 people.

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust runs a range of services for people living across south west London and in north east Surrey. The Trust provides specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to people living in a wider geographical area, including parts of Sussex and Hampshire. The Trust owns and runs four hospitals – Epsom Hospital, Sutton Hospital, St Helier Hospital and Queen Mary’s Hospital for Children and employs approximately 4,800 people.

Kingston Hospital NHS Trust
Kingston Hospital is a district general hospital in Kingston Upon Thames. The hospital runs services for some 320,000 people living in the surrounding area – in Kingston, Richmond, Roehampton, Putney and East Elmbridge. The hospital has approximately 520 beds and directly employs some 2,600 staff. Another 300 staff are employed by contractors but work on behalf of the Trust.

St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust
The Trust’s main site is St George’s Hospital in Tooting, a teaching hospital that provides a wide range of specialist and local health services, and works in partnership with St George’s, University of London. The Trust also runs the Wolfson Neurorehabilitation Centre that cares for people with neurological conditions such as stroke and spinal injuries, a wide variety of specialist and community hospital-based care, and a range of community services for children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are based at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, health centres and clinics, schools and nurseries, patients’ homes and in Wandsworth Prison. St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust employs around 6,000 staff.

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust
The Trust’s headquarters are at Springfield University Hospital in Tooting and it provides community and hospital-based mental health and addiction services from nearly 100 locations to people in south west London. It also runs specialist services that take referrals from throughout the United Kingdom, including learning disability services for children and adults with mental health problems, mental health services for deaf children and adults, personality disorders and a traumatic stress service. The Trust provides education and training and carries out research in partnership with St George’s, University of London, Kingston University and other higher education institutions. The Trust employs 2,700 staff.

Universities

Kingston University London
Kingston has seven faculties based at four campuses in and around Kingston Upon Thames. These include a Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, run jointly with St George’s, University of London (see below).

St George’s, University of London
St George’s trains health and social care professionals and carries out medical research. The courses available at the university range from medicine and biomedical science to radiography and physiotherapy. The university’s main campus shares a site with its NHS partner, St George’s Hospital. St George’s runs a Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences jointly with Kingston University (see below).

Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences
(a joint venture between Kingston University and St George’s University of London).
The Faculty offers a wide range of health and social care courses, training tomorrow’s health and social care professionals through its School of Social Work, Centre for Paramedic Science, School of Nursing, School of Midwifery and Child Health, School of Radiography and School of Rehabilitation Sciences. Its research groups include an Interprofessional Institute (Health and Social Care).

Roehampton University
Roehampton University’s Department of Life Sciences and a Department of Psychology both offer undergraduate and postgraduate programmes underpinned by research. The newly established Department of Psychology carries out research and teaching in all areas of psychology, psychological therapies, and arts and play therapies.