[6] In December 2013 the Trust was one of thirteen hospital trusts named by Dr Foster Intelligence as having higher than expected higher mortality indicator scores for the period April 2012 to March 2013 in their Hospital Guide 2013.

[7] It was put into a buddying arrangement with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

[10] The trust was one of 26 responsible for half of the national growth in patients waiting more than four hours in accident and emergency over the 2014/5 winter.

In April 2021 a judicial review at the High Court ruled that the trust did not consult properly on their plans for a 'green site' there, because they thought there would be too much resistance to it.

[17] A survey of almost 50,000 patients by the Care Quality Commission in 2021 found the emergency department rated least favourably of all those in England.