 They provide acute and specialist services to 2.5 million people within Nottingham and surrounding communities at the Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC) and the City Hospital campuses, as well as specialist services for a further 3-4 million people from across the region.A merger with Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was planned, and Peter Homa, Chief Executive of Nottingham took the same role at Sherwood Forest, but refused to accept responsibility for the trust's £2.5 billion private finance initiative contract.In 2016 Homa stepped down from the job at Sherwood Forest and in November 2016 it was announced that the merger would not proceed.