INCREDIBLE THINGS HAPPEN AT ST GEORGE’S HOSPITAL, QUEEN MARY’S HOSPITAL AND THROUGHOUT COMMUNITY SERVICES EVERY DAY.
We work in partnership with St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, St George’s, University of London and our local community to fund major improvements to hospital facilities, research and medical equipment, schemes that make a real difference to the experience of patients, families and staff, as well as projects within the community that support the reduction of health inequalities and preventable hospital admissions.
Underpinning all our activity is our organisational commitment to deliver better care and healthier lives and our determination to put patients first, be collaborative, to listen, make an impact and be responsive.
OUR MISSION
We work to improve the experience of patients, families, staff and the wider community served by the Trust.
Priority beneficiaries of our vital work are:
- Projects that enhance patient experience, welfare, therapy and rehabilitation
- Major development projects agreed with the Trust
- Medical equipment priorities of the Trust beyond those that can be funded by the NHS
- Supporting research with impact
We encourage top quality healthcare services at St George's and Queen Mary's Hospitals by raising awareness, generating increased funds, and making grants available for initiatives which support and supplement the work of the NHS Trust, making a real difference to patients and staff.
We award grants from Special Purpose (Restricted and Designated) Funds and from General Funds. Grants are typically divided into two types: capital grants - which are given to support a single project or purchase and are generally larger in size; and non-capital grants, including research projects - which are generally smaller in size and often repeated in subsequent years.
Our Trust
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust encompasses St George's Hospital in Tooting, Queen Mary's Hospital in Roehampton, and a range of community services in the local area.
The Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across south west London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
To make this happen, 9,000 staff work around the clock to deliver excellent patient care.
St George’s is also one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals. St George’s, University of London, which is co-located with the Trust, trains a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region and undertakes advanced medical research, bringing benefits to patients locally, nationally and internationally.
As well as being a national centre for neurosciences, cancer, stroke, cardiac, family HIV and genetics, St George’s Trust is also special because:
- It provides care for patients from a large catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases
- The Trust provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre
- It was the first hospital in London to provide 24 hour primary angioplasty services (a procedure used to widen blocked or narrowed coronary arteries in heart attack patients)
- St George’s in Tooting has one of only four Major Trauma Centres in London - and one of only three hospital helipads
- Queen Mary’s amputee rehabilitation Douglas Bader Unit has become an established international centre of excellence and a national leader in the research and development of rehabilitation techniques
- St George’s is also a major centre for fetal medicine, paediatric surgery and neonatal care
History of St George's
When the NHS was created in 1948, St George’s, like most large hospitals in the country, converted its charitable funds into a trust which was controlled by the Board of Governors and was used to provide services, facilities and research that the newly formed NHS was unable to provide.
In 1974, the Governors relinquished control over the charitable funds and passed them over to a Committee made up of doctors, senior nurses and staff who became the Special Trustees.
The Formation of the Charity
In 2001 a new charity was formed as St George’s Charitable Foundation, later changed to St George’s Hospital Charity as we are known today.
Since our formation, St George’s Hospital Charity has expended some £30 million of charitable funds on various projects, both large and small.
Since 2014 the Charity is also responsible for the charitable funds relating to Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton and the Wandsworth Community Funds reflecting a much broader remit encompassing much of south west London.
St George's through the years
