[6] The Chief Executive Officer of the hospital from April 2015[7] until January 2017 was Sue Hardy.
Hardy resigned in January 2017 to "pursue other opportunities as the trust moves into a new era".
[8] The medical director is Neil Rothnie[9] and the Chairman of Consultant Staff Committee is Sohail Ansari.
[11] On 31 July 2019 the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care endorsed the merger and a provisional date of 1 April 2020 was agreed.
[12] In June 2014, the Trust was described as having "one of the worst performing accident and emergency departments in the country", which "repeatedly failed to consistently meet the national target of seeing most A&E patients within four hours, and ensure most wait less than 18 weeks for operations" by Monitor.