[5] A successful campaign to save the Royal Surrey County Hospital from closure was launched in October 2006.

The Royal Surrey is also a specialist centre for diabetes, ENT and maxillo facial surgery.

It is situated close to the University of Surrey's Manor Park campus, allowing it to offer opportunities for research and pioneering treatments such as fibroid embolisation, brachytherapy and minimal access surgery.

After the agency raised concerns about staffing, quality systems and documentation, production was suspended in November 2019.

[11] In 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the trust built a 20 bed isolation ward in record time.