What next for the new Frimley Park Hospital?
Getty ImagesA 17-week public engagement exercise with people in parts of Surrey, Berkshire and Hampshire on the location of a new hospital and the future of health services ends on Monday 12 October.
Under the plans, Frimley Park Hospital would be rebuilt at a different site nearby.
The impact of the proposed relocation on traffic, transport, schools, the environment and infrastructure are among the questions and concerns that have been raised by the public since the engagement started in June.
Chief executive, Lance McCarthy, previously said that "a new Frimley Park Hospital will mean safer buildings, modern facilities and an environment that helps our staff deliver the very best care."
What are the proposals?
Frimley Park has reinforced autoclaved aerated Concrete (Raac) in two thirds of its current building.
As part of its plans, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust wants to build a new acute hospital to replace Frimley Park, which would include emergency, maternity, specialist and neonatal and children's inpatient services.
The preferred location is on 55 acres of land, owned by the charity Frimley Fuel Allotments, part of which is Pine Ridge Golf Club, as well as surrounding woodland areas adjacent to the greens and fairways.
The trust has said the proposals would also mean changes to allow Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot to allow more planned care in, for example, orthopaedic, eye and gynaecology services.
There would also be more use of digital services, such as virtual appointments, as well as care in people's homes and neighbourhood areas.
What are the concerns about the proposed site?
Campaigners have said there are a "multitude of concerns" over the location of the proposed new hospital and there have been several protests since the plans were announced.
The concerns include the impact on the local infrastructure, access from the surrounding roads and an increase on already busy traffic.
Caroline Hibberd from Heatherside Ward Residents Association (HWRA) told BBC Radio Surrey she is worried about "the sheer volume of vulnerable people who walk down that road."
"It's right next to a secondary school so (there are) a lot of school children on foot...it would just be adding increased risk to their journey."
Katherine Sargent from HWRA said they are also worried about the loss of trees and Pine Ridge Golf Club as a local facility, which "provides a huge amount of leisure facilities, not just golf."
"There's lots of people using the land for walking, for dog walking, for recreation, but it's also...weddings, all sorts of events...so it's a hugely important asset to our community as well," she added.
There have also been calls for other sites to be chosen for the location of the new hospital instead.
The MP for Surrey Heath, Al Pinkerton, has previously challenged a decision not to hold a public consultation and said he had "very serious concerns about the credibility and integrity of the engagement process."
"Despite the enormous public concern surrounding the proposed relocation of Frimley Park Hospital, this has never been a meaningful exercise in consulting people about where their hospital should be built," he said.
What has the NHS had to say?
The trust said the engagement exercise included more than 20 public events and pop-up sessions, as well as a survey of residents and independent focus groups and it has received a wide range of views.
In a report, it said it considered a range of different locations for the new hospital.
Those have included the existing Frimley Park at Portsmouth Road, land near to the Cody Tech Park, Frimley Business Park and Blackbushe Airport.
However, the Frimley Fuel Allotments site "remained the highest-rated option" as part of the review process.
The trust has said that the land had not yet been purchased and there had not been a final decision, but more detailed work would be carried out to understand the development of the site, including traffic, transport and the environmental impact.
What happens next?
The trust says that all the feedback received will be "analysed independently" by a research organisation, Opinion Research Services, who will prepare a report.
This will then be used to "refine and improve proposals" and "identify where mitigation may be needed", with a summary expected to be published in early 2027.
Hibberd said HWRA will "be going through that with a fine tooth comb."
After the exercise, the trust says work will continue to develop the plans with more technical assessments.
It wants to submit a planning application in autumn of 2027, which would mean a public consultation as part of the planning process.
Approval will also be needed from the Department of Health and Social Care to purchase the land.
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