Details of which health services could be retained at Epsom General Hospital should be known by the end of November when Surrey Primary Care Trust publishes its plans for the hospital.

But it is not clear whether the Denbies Trust, the charity set up by businessman Adrian White, will be involved.

When Surrey PCT makes its intentions clear it could bring to an end the years of uncertainty over the hospital’s future.

At last week’s Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust annual meeting, chief executive Samantha Jones said that more information would be released when Surrey PCT revealed its plans.

In the meantime negotiations were still being carried out with the Denbies Trust which promised to invest in the site to bring it up to modern day standards and to run both private and NHS services from the hospital.

“There are no secret deals being done and by November we should know what Surrey Primary Care Trust wants to have on the site and what its commissioning intentions are. There is still a great deal of potential to invest in the Epsom site,” said Mrs Jones.

The review on the future of Epsom and St Helier Trust was still underway, she said.

The options are to keep Epsom and St Helier linked in one trust, a de-merger where they are separated or a divestment where one part of the trust is absorbed by another organisation.

“I make no apology for making the decision to ask the question about the future configuration of the trust,” she told the audience.

For years people in Surrey have campaigned to separate Epsom from St Helier hospital fearing that the trust was spending most of its resources on St Helier.

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