[2] On New Year's Day 1872, a fire broke out on the top floor of the Adelaide Wing of the hospital, in Ward 6.

[4] The main and tallest building of the hospital, the Thomas Kemp Tower, started construction in the late 1960s.

[5] It is the 8th tallest structure in Brighton and Hove and is prominent on the city's skyline, reaching 15 floors,[6] at a height of 58.9 m (193 ft).

[7] In October 1984, after the Provisional IRA bombed the Grand Hotel where members of the Government were staying during the Conservative Party annual conference, the hospital received many of the injured.

[8] In 2005 an episode of the BBC investigative programme Panorama featured secretly filmed material taken by a nurse and an undercover journalist.

[18] Stage 1 is also providing a much needed helideck for air ambulances on top of the Thomas Kemp Tower, from which the most severe patients can be taken directly to A&E via a dedicated lift.

Air ambulances taking patients to the hospital currently have to land at East Brighton Park, almost a mile away.