[6] Construction of a new building to provide teaching and study space for medical students began in 2017.

[11] In December 2013 it was announced that Monitor was reviewing health services in Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes in an attempt to avert "significant problems ahead" in the local hospitals.

[12] The trust did poorly in the 2014 cancer patient experience survey and in February 2015 agreed to pair up with Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust, which did very well, in a scheme intended to "spread and accelerate innovative practice via peer to peer support and learning".

[13] Following its inspection, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) advised, in March 2015, that the trust "requires improvement".

[17] It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015.

[18] The trust halved its £21m agency spend between 2015 and 2019 after introducing a series of workforce benefits.

[19] The hospital is just south of Central Milton Keynes, off Standing Way (A421, H8) near its junction with Marlborough Street (B4034, V8).