About us

South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust provides mental health and learning disability services to around 1.1 million people across the London boroughs of Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth.  

We are a diverse team of around 3,100 staff, supporting approximately 43,000 individual patients every year. We provide a wide range of services, including community and inpatient care, crisis support, and specialist national services.

Our mission is “Making Life Better Together”. This means working to be the heart of our communities, at neighbourhood level, in partnership with patients, carers and local people, to support recovery, improve wellbeing and help people live the lives they want. 

We structure our organisation and services across four main clinical areas (service lines), which sit alongside corporate services. Our over 100 clinical services aim to ensure seamless care across:

  • acute and urgent care
  • community services
  • children and young people’s services
  • specialist services, including forensic and national services 

We provide care from a range of locations across South West London and beyond, including our main sites at Springfield University Hospital and Tolworth Hospital, alongside community sites. We are continuing to invest in modern, high-quality facilities to improve patient experience and reduce stigma. 

We have a number of strategic principles, which along with our values, guide our decisions. We are:

  • actively anti-racist and inclusive
  • ambitious for mental health
  • patient‑centred, clinically-led and expertly-managed
  • digital first and accessible 24/7
  • evidence‑based and consistent
  • rooted in our communities
  • continuously improving and building confidence across the system

 

As a teaching Trust, we work with a number of universities and partners to support education, training and research. We continue to invest in innovation and new ways of delivering care, including digital services and community-based support. Through our Better Communities Programme, we are investing in an ambitious programme for our estate to create better environments, improving care pathways and patient experience and strengthening digital services to support both patients and staff. 

Together, this work supports our ambition to deliver high-quality, equitable and sustainable mental health care for the communities we serve.

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