The Trust spent £935,500 on a "turnaround" management consultant, Donald Muir, a director of Titanium Global Solutions who worked at the Trust from October 2013 to July 2014 [REF].
In June 2015 more than 80 doctors signed a letter highlighting "unsafe" bed occupancy rates, cuts impacting on staffing levels and overuse of agency nurses at the trust, and demanding that the private finance initiative contract should be bailed out [REF].