[1] Ashford Hospital was developed from the former Staines (Poor law union) Workhouse Infirmary founded under the requirement of statute for each workhouse to offer a separate infirmary (the Poor Law Amendment Act 1867).
[2] St Peter's is a site built after World War II on much of the former park surrounding Botleys Mansion, which remains intact, in a semi-rural part of Chertsey.
A plan for the Trust to take over Epsom Hospital was abandoned in October 2012 by NHS London board because a financially viable plan for the future of Epsom hospital as part of the merged trust could not be developed.
[6] In October 2013 the Trust was categorised as a band six, the best rating, in a hospital intelligence monitoring report published by the Care Quality Commission.
[7] The Trust did poorly in the 2015 cancer patient experience survey so paired up with St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which did very well, in a scheme "to spread and accelerate innovative practice via peer to peer support and learning".