[5] In December 2013 it was revealed that the Trust had one of the worst figures for delayed discharges in England.

[6] In 2014, the Trust planned to buy a new electronic patient record system and sent 14 members of staff to the USA to evaluate the competing systems from Cerner and Allscripts, the final two competing for the £38 million contract shortlisted from eight bidders.

[8] In April 2015 the Trust lost a contract to manage school nurses in Calderdale in favour of Locala.

In 2014 it lost a £4.5 million contract for wheelchair services to private firm Opcare and a contract for termination of pregnancy worth roughly £1 million to the women’s charity Marie Stopes International.

[9] In May 2021 the trust analysed its waiting list performance and found that patients from a minority ethnic background were waiting 8.5 weeks longer on average for a “priority two” operation, which should be done within a month, than white patients and patients from the most deprived communities were waiting 7.8 weeks longer than those from the least deprived areas.