[6] Cricketer Ian Botham, famous for his charity work, opened a state of the art leukemia unit at the hospital in 1998.

[7] Pop star and actor Martin Kemp opened the hospital's new CT scanning suite in January 2006, a decade after he recovered from brain cancer with the help of pioneering treatment.

The radio station, which is run as a charity, originally started at the Guest Hospital in 1975 before moving to Russells Hall in 1999.

[9] The trust was given four enforcement notices in 2018 by the Care Quality Commission because of continued concerns regarding patient safety at the "inadequate" A&E department at Russells Hall.

[10] It was announced in September 2018 that the A&E department was being investigated after concerns had been raised about the deaths of 54 patients in a 6-month period.