[1] In December 2020 it agreed to appoint a joint chair with Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, anticipating plans to form a group model across the sustainability and transformation partnership.

[2] In November 2013 the Trust announced that it needed a new A&E department, intensive care unit and expansion of maternity services to deal with rising demand, on top of the £170 million redevelopment completed in 2010.

[3] The Trust's board meeting in May 2014 noted it had been forced to "recruit 25 additional staff" to address "a number of issues [which] have arisen as their Lorenzo patient record systems move to business as usual", including "backlogs, clinic restructuring and un-outcomed outpatient clinic forms".

[8] 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.

[9] In 2015, the trust did not submit its data for national reporting because of problems with its computer system, but its own “benchmarking” would have ranked it 130 out of 130 in the country for treating referred patients within 18 weeks in December 2015.