About us
Essentia
Essentia provides in-house Estates, Facilities and Capital Management for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, as well as services for other local NHS providers in both the acute and community setting. The context within which Essentia works is changing, and at pace. There is an unprecedented appetite for collaboration between Trusts, within the Integrated Care System (ICS, formerly STP) and beyond, and growing interest in Essentia the organisation of choice for the successful management of high quality estates and facilities services. In an arrangement between Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospitals and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trusts, Essentia is providing strategic and operational leadership to the estates and facilities teams.
Essentia designs, builds and maintains healthcare infrastructure vital to the smooth running of healthcare services. This encompasses everything from construction projects and healthcare planning to waste management, housekeeping, transport and security. Essentia employs around 1,700 people, who provide essential facilities management support to clinical teams. It combines exceptionally high standards and public sector values with commercial focus, innovative thinking and modern technology to create the best possible patient experience.
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
King’s College Hospital is one of London’s largest and busiest teaching hospitals, with a strong profile of local services primarily serving the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham and Bromley. With over 12,500 colleagues, their specialist services include nationally and internationally recognised work in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, haemato-oncology and foetal medicine. The three main sites for King’s College Hospital are Denmark Hill, the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) and Orpington Hospital.
Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Guy’s & St Thomas’ is one of the largest hospital trusts in the country, with around 17,000 staff, an annual turnover of more than £1.6 billion, and over 2.6 million patient contacts a year. Our hospitals have a long and proud history, dating back almost 900 years, and have been at the forefront of medical progress and innovation since they were founded. We continue to build on these traditions and have a reputation for clinical, teaching and research excellence.
Our vision is to provide the best service possible within the resources available, to be the estates, facilities and capital management provider of choice in south London and beyond, and to develop innovative approaches to improve the health estate.
Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust
Serving a population of more than 666,000 people across Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust was formed in 2013. The Trust responsible for University Hospital Lewisham (UHL), Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), a range of community services in Lewisham and some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. We employ 6,500 staff and have 901 beds across our two hospitals.
Our five boroughs and wider catchment
South East London covers 124 square kilometres and five London boroughs; Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lewisham and Southwark. The region’s estimated 1.9 million residents vary widely in socio-economic indicators, and it is an area of mixed deprivation. South East London includes the more deprived boroughs of Lewisham (7th most deprived out of 33), Southwark (9th), Greenwich (11th), Lambeth (12th) and the less deprived boroughs of Bromley (22nd) and Bexley (23rd). Our three Trusts are working hard together to drive the improvement of services at borough level and across our wider catchment area.
