<P> Professor Dorothy Griffiths was appointed as chair of the Trust in January 2014 following the retirement of Dame Ruth Runciman, who served the Trust for more than ten years . </P> <P> In 2017 the trust established a subsidiary company, Quality Trusted Solutions Ltd, to which 35 staff were transferred . The intention was to achieve pay bill savings, by recruiting new staff on less expensive non-NHS contracts . </P> <P> It was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015 . At that time it had 5745 full - time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.51% . 63% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 56% recommended it as a place to work . </P> <P> In March 2016 the Trust was ranked 125th in the Learning from Mistakes League . </P>

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