[1] In October 2012 the Trust announced that it needed a "smaller hospital, with substantially fewer beds".

In November 2013 it announced that it was abandoning the system Meditech 6.0, produced by US-based Medical Information Technology, that it had spent more than £21 million implementing which went live in 2012, after a "catalogue of failure".

[5] In 2015 the Trust declared a serious incident after discovering a patient had waited 66 weeks for an operation.

[8] In the most recent Care Quality Commission inspection report, published on 31 January 2019, the trust was rated overall as requiring improvement.

[9] From 1 April 2011, a number of services previously provided by Rotherham Community Health Services and Doncaster Dental Care merged with The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust creating a combined acute and community provider organisation.