The trust is a joint venture partner in University of East Anglia’s School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, including undergraduate and postgraduate medical education.

There are strong links with the University of East Anglia (UEA) centred in the medical school with the appointment of Chairs in Primary Care, Education, Epidemiology, Cancer Studies.

The UEA School of Nursing and Midwifery’s Edith Cavell building on the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital campus opened in 2006.

The trust was one of the biggest beneficiaries of Boris Johnson's announcement of capital funding for the NHS in August 2019, with an allocation of £69.7 million for new diagnostic centres in Norwich, Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn.

[4] In June 2018 after a Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection it was put into special measures after inspectors rated the trust leadership inadequate, found a "bullying culture" and an "obvious deterioration" in services.