[1] The hospital, was built as a two-storey building, with a reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete plank roof.

[3] The Arthur Levin Day Surgery Centre was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 11 January 1999.

[3] During her Golden Jubilee in 2002, the Queen who usually spent accession day in private at Windsor Castle, opened the hospital's £1.2 million Macmillan Cancer Unit.

[1] Various other members of the royal family have visited the hospital over the years, including Princess Anne who opened the £5 million Critical Care Unit in 2005.

In March 2021, after 40 years of life, the RAAC plank roof was said to be structurally unsafe and hundreds of support props had to be installed.

[12] The Guardian newspaper noted that a 2020 proposal to rebuild Queen Elizabeth Hospital was not funded by HM Treasury during Rishi Sunak's term as Chancellor of the Exchequer, despite a "catastrophic" grade of risk and a warning that an incident was "likely".

In the 2007/08 Healthcare Commission's review, it rated the Queen Elizabeth Hospital's "Use of Resources" as "Weak" and "Quality of Service" as "Good".

[21] It was removed from special measures in August 2015 after an inspection found "marked improvement in the quality of care being delivered".

[23] It was rated as having the lowest index of digital maturity of any NHS hospital trust in England in April 2016.

[25] Vacancy rates of over 40% on a number of wards forced the trust to consider widespread cancellation of routine surgery.

[26] In July 2019 the Care Quality Commission extended the special measures after inspectors said they found an "extremely concerning" lack of improvement, with "significant concerns and risks to patients within the urgent and emergency service, medicine, end of life care and gynaecology".