Their candidate Dr Richard Taylor defeated David Lock the sitting Labour MP in the 2001 general election.

"[3] The trust is currently under the leadership of group chief executive Glen Burley[1] and group Chair Russell Hardy[1] In November 2018 it was announced that the Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service's community risk team would be running an enhanced hospital from home service to help discharge patients from the hospital in Redditch for six months.

[6] In April 2014 it was revealed that the Trust had mislaid up to 270,000 ultrasound scans which were stored on obsolete technology dating back to 2004.

Andrew Brown, whose complaints led to this revelation had been labelled a ‘vexatious complainant’ after raising concerns about his treatment at Worcestershire Royal Hospital over several years.

[7] The Trust's former Chief Operating Officer, Stewart Messer, attempted to ban Stuart Gardner, a UNISON representative of the West Midlands Ambulance Service from Trust premises in January after he told the BBC about 18 patients being treated in corridors at the Worcester Royal Hospital.

Waiting times were out of control in ear, nose and throat, trauma and orthopedics, gynaecology, general surgery and dermatology.

[25] Eight year old Callum Cartlidge died after Worcestershire Royal Hospital failed to do a blood test and misdiagnosed his condition.

They found that 700 patients a month were waiting more than 12 hours in the emergency department before being admitted or discharged, far more than the trust had reported.

Waiting in corridors had "largely been normalised and accepted as standard practice” and ambulance handover delays were worsening.

The 30-year private finance initiative scheme at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital which runs until 2032 costs the trust about £13.6m a year.