[1] The trust employs 8,590 staff[2] across all its sites, and in 2016/17 had 141,355 attendances to its Emergency Department, and 80,756 elective inpatient and day case admissions.

Ultimately three bidders participated in the procurement and the services were awarded to a consortium led by West London Mental Health NHS Trust.

[4] In 2019 it set up a service combining vascular surgery, endovascular surgery and interventional radiology at Northwick Park Hospital, challenging the dominance of the London teaching hospitals in specialist services.

[6] In October and November 2014 it had the worst performance in the country on the Four-hour target in emergency departments after the two smaller casualty units at Central Middlesex and Hammersmith hospitals were closed in September.

[10] It forecast a year-end deficit of £92 million for 2019–20 after reducing the elective waiting list from 53,600 in February 2019 to 51,170 in December 2019.