Radio Frimley Park

Radio Frimley Park is a charitable service for patients at hospitals run by Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. Based at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey, it has operated since 1976. Its stated purpose combines entertainment with information and education, helping patients pass the time through music, requests and regular quizzes.

The broadcaster's connection with the trust extends to Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot and Wexham Park Hospital in Slough. That wider hospital relationship brings together listeners from sites in Surrey and Berkshire. Personal selections and familiar presentation remain important within a service that can be followed by patients and their supporters outside the original hospital base.

Gordon Cox conceived the original Frimley Park Broadcasting Service, which launched on 1 October 1976 with support from the hospital's League of Friends. Outside broadcasts later developed into a mobile service using converted former ambulances at local events. After a theft damaged the studio in 1990, community fundraising helped restore broadcasting, with Tom O'Connor visiting for the return to air. Such episodes show how support around the hospital has sustained the station through major changes.

The organisation introduces its volunteers, shares station news and maintains recordings of programmes for later listening. Requests offer a direct route from the listener to the studio, while participation in trust events connects the team with patients and members of the public. Its identity remains closely tied to the hospitals it serves and the volunteers who sustain the broadcast.