According to the hospital's Wikipedia page it, "... employs more than 6,900 members of staff and provides adult services to more than a half a million patients every year ... The hospital has the largest single-floor critical care unit in the world, with 100 beds, and is the home of the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine for military personnel injured in conflict zones. It is also a regional centre for trauma and burns. "



The hospital has, like a number of others around the country, had to deal with the ongoing financial challenges resulting from the PFI arrangement.  In addition, within a year of its opeing it faced a headline in the Daily Mail that described it as a, "... Farce of the new £545m NHS hospital which is too SMALL: Flagship unit forced to re-open old wards at the site it replaced". Adding that, "...Bosses say old wards need to be reopened to meet the 'unprecedented demand on services across the region, including the ageing population'".