The brand new Heatherwood Hospital opened its doors to patients on 28 March 2022, three years after construction
began. It was a special moment when first patient Carole Gray cut the ribbon to declare the £99m hospital open, a world-class centre for non-emergency care.

There is no other hospital like it in the UK, and this state-of-the-art facility replaces the original hospital, which began its life in 1922 as a tuberculosis and orthopaedic hospital for children before it was managed by the newly formed NHS in 1948.

One hundred years later, the 11,500 square metre Heatherwood Hospital supports planned care, separate from our urgent and emergency care sites at Frimley and Wexham, with every element designed to provide easy and efficient care for patients. We have maximised the hospital’s potential
to deliver great diagnostics and planned care through a combination of using the latest digital technology and flexible outpatient spaces, co-ordinating appointments for consultations, diagnostics and surgical procedures, and remodelling some of the services.

This has increased the number of operations and procedures we can offer at a time when it is needed most, while also reducing the number of visits patients need to make to the hospital by providing one-stop services. As a result, in 2022-23 we expect to increase the numbers of procedures we carry out at Heatherwood by around 4,000.