[7] In January 2018, the CCG proposed that Isle of Wight patients needing high risk and complex emergency and elective surgery should in future be treated in Portsmouth and Southampton.

[8] The trust has established an emergency care hub at the hospital where social workers have joined ambulance crews, mental health teams and district nurses are based together.

[13] In April 2017, it was put into special measures after a Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection rated it inadequate,[14] finding "unsafe" mental health services, widespread understaffing and a "subtle culture of bullying".

[23] The Isle of Wight NHS was one of the areas selected to pilot Integrated primary and acute care systems under the Five Year Forward View in 2015.

[25] The trust's Discharge Facilitation Service was highly commended at the 2021 Municipal Journal Local Government Achievement Awards for its success in bringing people home sooner from hospital admissions.