Our current hospital has around 7,000 RAAC planks, including in some of our most key areas: our operating theatres, intensive care unit, wards, and corridors.

Alongside our clinical teams and advisors, we have considered whether attempting to build a new hospital on our current site is a viable option. However, this would require a phased demolition and rebuild on a site which is already congested, causing significant disruption to our patients, staff, and hospital services. Most importantly, however, it would be impossible to complete a phased build by our RAAC deadline of 2030.

As a result, we are now actively looking at alternative locations for a new replacement Frimley Park Hospital.

We are committed to making sure that our patients, staff, volunteers, our local communities and other stakeholders will all have an opportunity to be involved in how we select possible sites for a new hospital.

One of our guiding principles is that we are keen for a new site to be located as close as possible to the current Frimley Park Hospital site.