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Stafford Hospital NHS trust to be dissolved | |
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The trust that runs the scandal-hit Stafford Hospital is to be dissolved. | |
The Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust has been in administration since April when services were deemed "unsustainable" by the health watchdog Monitor. | |
The Trust Special Administrators' (TSA) final recommendations have been published in its report. | |
Control of Stafford Hospital will go to University Hospital of North Staffordshire and Cannock Hospital will be run by Royal Wolverhampton Trust. | Control of Stafford Hospital will go to University Hospital of North Staffordshire and Cannock Hospital will be run by Royal Wolverhampton Trust. |
Changes to recommendations made in the TSA's draft report in July include establishing a midwife-led maternity unit at Stafford Hospital, allowing some women to give birth there. | |
Paediatric assessment will still take place at the hospital by specialist staff, in conjunction with A&E, and critical patients will be allowed to stay overnight in Stafford as long as the appropriate staff are on duty. | Paediatric assessment will still take place at the hospital by specialist staff, in conjunction with A&E, and critical patients will be allowed to stay overnight in Stafford as long as the appropriate staff are on duty. |
The trust has made significant improvements over the last two to three years and was currently clinically safe but "highly fragile", the TSA said. | |
It is thought Cannock and Stafford hospitals will have been taken over by autumn next year, BBC reporter Phil Mackie said. | |
The health watchdog Monitor has 20 working days from Tuesday, 17 December to consider the final report. | |
If approved, it will be passed to the secretary of state who will have a period of 30 working days to announce his final decision. | |
The Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust provided healthcare for people in Stafford, Cannock, Rugeley and the surrounding areas, covering a total population of about 276,500 people. |