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| Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust 'should be dissolved' | Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust 'should be dissolved' |
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| The trust that ran the scandal-hit Stafford Hospital should be dissolved, administrators have recommended. | |
| The Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust went into administration on 16 April after a report concluded it was not "clinically or financially sustainable". | The Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust went into administration on 16 April after a report concluded it was not "clinically or financially sustainable". |
| Critical care, maternity and paediatric services should also be cut, the proposals unveiled by Trust Special Administrators (TSA) say. | |
| The trust's two hospitals will come under two other trusts. | |
| Stafford Hospital will be part of the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent while Cannock Hospital will become part of the Royal Wolverhampton Trust. | |
| Stafford Hospital will lose its maternity unit but will keep its accident and emergency department, which will continue to open from 08:00 to 22:00, as it has since December 2011. | |
| The hospital's critical care unit will be downgraded and it will lose some emergency surgery. Seriously ill children will no longer be admitted to Stafford and will instead go to Stoke-on-Trent. | |
| Both Cannock and Stafford hospitals will gain some minor operations and more patients will be sent to both to recover from complicated surgery. | |
| 'Become unsafe' | |
| Another proposal is to introduce a "Frail Elderly Assessment service", which would mean different sources would provide information on older people's needs when they are referred to hospital. | |
| The proposals will now go to a public consultation and the Health Secretary is expected to make the final decision by the end of the year. | |
| If approved, the proposals will be implemented by 2018. | |
| 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. | |
| In April up to 50,000 people took part in a march from Stafford's town centre to the hospital, protesting at plans to downgrade Stafford's services. | |
| The administrators said they did not believe other local hospitals would be able to cope with the extra pressure if Stafford's accident and emergency department was completely shut. | |
| All existing services provided at Cannock Chase hospital will continue with the aim of extending them where possible, the TSA said. | |
| Trust Special Administrator Alan Bloom said: "We are doing this because services will become unsafe if no changes are made." |