Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust was added to the Government’s new hospital programme in 2022, which will see the building of a new state-of-the-art replacement for Frimley Park Hospital.

Progress has been made towards narrowing down the potential site for the new hospital using feedback from the first engagement session to help with the site selection.

Site brief developed with land agents and high level evaluation of sites and application of pass/fail 'hurdle' criteria

In Summer 2023, the Trust asked a specialist land agency to identify a range of potential sites for the new Frimley Park Hospital. To this list of possible sites, pass or fail criteria was applied to rule out those that were unsuitable. This included whether the land was at least 20 developmental acres, whether there was an obvious planning risk, and if the land owner was willing to sell within an acceptable timescale.

Feedback from initial engagement and technical site evaluation applied to priority sites

For the next step, the Trust looked at 14 technical criteria and considered the feedback from the public and staff engagement, including the overall ability to deliver for 2030, transport, distance from current site, and the relative cost. The feedback from the first public and staff engagement period and a technical evaluation of the sites also fed into this.

Following this process, a number of ‘preferred sites’ have been shortlisted, which were recently approved by Frimley Health Board.

Due diligence on preferred sites

The Trust is now undertaking a continued level of due diligence on the preferred sites to complete legal, planning and clinical modelling analysis before any further decisions can be made.

We have entered into confidentially agreements with the landowners of our preferred sites. To protect those agreements, we cannot disclose further information relating to the sites or their locations while we continue our due diligence.

Site evaluation outcomes and next steps

As soon as we know the outcome of the site evaluation, we will start the process of purchasing our preferred site. We will, of course, undertake further public and staff engagement at that time.

The Trust remains on track to redevelop Frimley Park Hospital for 2030 and is working closely with all partners to enable the programme plan to achieve this challenging deadline.

Watch: Discover the full site selection process and how this was used to narrow down the potential sites.

Engagement period feedback - you said, we did

Thank you all for helping to promote our first engagement period, which ran between November 2023 and January 2024. We used your feedback, comments and opinions to shape our site evaluation criteria and have published a report that explains how the feedback was considered in our site selection process so far.

This 'You Said We Did' report is available at the bottom of this page, alongside the independent analysis of the feedback we received during the engagement period.

These reports can be found on the engagement page.