In 2017 the trust established a subsidiary company, BFW Management Ltd (Trading as Atlas), to which 150 estates and facilities staff were transferred.

[7] Its handover times from paramedics to casualty staff were also very poor, with a designated "corridor nurse" employed to manage patients for whom there was no bed available.

There is an electronic patient record in the emergency department, provided by IMS MAXIMS, and it is intended to roll this out into the rest of the hospital when funding is available.

[11] In 2022 the maternity department, suffering severe staffing problems, was issued with a warning notice by the Care Quality Commission when they found women waiting up to five days for labour to be induced.

The Council's procurement process was not undertaken correctly and a proposed five-year contract award in favour of Virgin Care was set aside by the High Court.