[8] The Telegraph quoted the £200,000 package for a 2-day week of chairman Christopher Langley who is entitled to £17,000 flat rate expenses, and banker Robert Griffiths who is paid the annual equivalent of £540,000 to act as "treasurer".

Particular problems were identified in the casualty department where staff "felt under siege", with up to 16 ambulances queuing outside and patients waited for more than 24 hours on at least ten occasions during the year.

A system must be established to record each patient's arrival, registration and time of first clinical assessment and the Trust is required to report on a weekly basis every time this standard is failed; and provide details about the patients affected, how long each one waited for an initial assessment, the reason why they waited longer than 15 minutes, and if there were consequences.

[13] The Trust was one of 26 responsible for half of the national growth in patients waiting more than four hours in accident and emergency over the 2014/5 winter.

Shena Winning, the Chair of the Trust, complained to Reckless, pointing out that public bodies cannot be associated with politically-biased information that could be seen to give any party an electoral advantage and that he had not asked permission to use the picture.