The Royal Marsden - Sutton

The Royal Marsden Sutton Hospital is one of two locations, which make up the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. It is located within Sutton in south west London, approximately five miles from central London. There are 106 general and acute beds at Royal Marsden Hospital Sutton.

The trust is staffed by approximately 4203, including; 402 medical, 1255 nursing, 1203 other clinical and 1343 other non-clinical. Many staff work across both hospital locations and a number also staff the service provided at Kingston Hospital.

Our visit to the trust took place as part of our comprehensive scheduled inspection programme. During the inspection of the Sutton location we reviewed seven core service areas, as follows:

• Adult solid tumours
• HBMT
• Chemotherapy
• Radiotherapy
• Services for children and young people
• End of life care
• Outpatients and diagnostic imaging