Working together to improve services

Update on Surrey Heartlands Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services and Adult Eating Disorder Services - January 2026

Two new NHS Provider Collaboratives are being established to manage commissioning arrangements for specialist mental health services for young people from Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Medway, and for adults with eating disorders from Kent and Medway, Surrey and Sussex.

This follows the transfer of responsibility for the Surrey Heartlands CAMHS Tier 4 and Adult Eating Disorder Provider Collaboratives from Surrey & Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

These changes will result in the creation of the new Southern Counties CAMHS Provider Collaborative and the new Kent, Surrey and Sussex Adult Eating Disorders Provider Collaborative, effective from Monday 2 February 2026.  

The new Provider Collaboratives, which will be led by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, will manage commissioning arrangements for specialist mental health services for children and young people from Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Medway and adults with eating disorders from Kent, Surrey and Sussex.

Children and their families, and people affected by eating disorders, should continue to use their services as normal.

NHS-led Provider Collaboratives involve providers of specialist health and care services in the same geographical area working together to continuously improve patient experience. Organisations come together to provide specific, targeted care and services for specialised mental health, learning disability and autism services.  

This new way of working more closely together enables the NHS and independent health providers to share learning, clinical expertise and innovation to continuously improve services for patients, carers and families. 

As the lead provider for two Provider Collaboratives in the Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care System, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for planning and commissioning specialist services that can meet the needs of our local communities. Details are below.

Trust Provider Collaborative

Surrey Heartlands Trust Provider Collaborative (TPC) is a partnership committed to improving patient outcomes in ways which are fair, sustainable, efficient and innovative.

Established in July 2023, the TPC consists of four NHS Trusts:

  • Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
  • Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Surrey and Borders Partnership Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust
  • Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The partners recognise that by working together we are better able to meet the challenges of increasing demand for services, reducing health inequalities, the pressures on our workforce, and financial sustainability, so that the residents of Surrey Heartlands receive the quality of services that they rightly expect, in a timely way.

View the Surrey Heartlands TPC Annual Report 2024

Adult Eating Disorders

We work with:

  • South London Mental Health and Community Partnership
  • Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
  • The Priory Group

We are also network partners of a further two Provider Collaboratives: Veterans (led by Solent NHS Trust) and Forensics (led jointly by Sussex Partnership and Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trusts).