Lists this hospital appears on
- Position as printed30 Newsweek and Statista, World's Best Hospitals 2026: United Kingdom (opens the publisher’s list in a new tab) Statista scored hospitals within each country on hospital quality metrics (40 per cent), peer recommendations from an online survey of medical experts (30 per cent national, 5 per cent international), patient experience data (18.5 per cent) and its PROMs Implementation Survey (6.5 per cent), and lists specialised hospitals separately without a rank.
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About the hospital
Royal Surrey County Hospital is on Egerton Road, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XX, and is run by Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, which also provides adult community services from Haslemere Hospital and Milford Hospital. The trust says the hospital provides emergency and general hospital services to more than 330,000 people across south west Surrey, and that the trust employs over 4,500 staff.
The hospital houses the trust’s specialist tertiary Cancer Centre, which the trust says serves a population of up to two million across Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire, and a Minimal Access Therapy Training Unit for keyhole surgery. The trust lists two MRI scanners, four CT scanners, interventional radiology equipment and a gamma camera, and reports around 336,000 outpatients, 90,000 admissions, 81,900 Emergency Department attendances and 3,000 births a year. The National Archives’ hospital records database gives 1863 as the hospital’s foundation year.
Facts
- Opened
- 1863 (foundation year, The National Archives)
- Address
- Egerton Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XX
- Trust sites
- Royal Surrey County Hospital, Haslemere Hospital, Milford Hospital, Cranleigh Village Hospital (trust website)
- Research facility
- NIHR Royal Surrey Clinical Research Facility (trust website)
- Volunteers
- Around 400 (trust website)
Questions readers ask
Who runs Royal Surrey County Hospital?
Royal Surrey County Hospital is run by Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, which the Care Quality Commission also lists as its provider.
What specialist services are based at Royal Surrey County Hospital?
The hospital houses the trust's specialist tertiary Cancer Centre and a Minimal Access Therapy Training Unit for keyhole surgery, according to the trust.
Where is Royal Surrey County Hospital?
Royal Surrey County Hospital is on Egerton Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XX.
Sources
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