New Trust to Run Stafford Hospital (BBC News)

Posted on October 15, 2014 by

Summary

A new trust is being created (“renamed”) to run the scandal-hit Stafford Hospital and another hospital in Stoke. On November 1st 2014, the University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust will become the University Hospitals of North Midlands. The NHS in Staffordshire has received £300m to implement these changes.

Stafford Hospital will be renamed as the County Hospital. The City General will be re-named as the Royal Stoke University Hospital.

The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust is to be dissolved next month, after having been in administration since April 2013. Some services will move from Stafford, under control of the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.

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Stafford Hospital: New trust to run renamed hospital. Stoke & Staffordshire: BBC Health News, October 14th 2014.

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Mid Staffordshire hospital investigation cost £19.5m. Stoke & Staffordshire: BBC Health News, March 3rd 2015.

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