The scandal-hit Mid Staffordshire NHS trust running Stafford Hospital is to be dissolved following being in administration since April 2013 after Monitor, the sector regulator for health services in England [in effect the the health service watchdog] deemed it as “unsustainable”.
The Trust Special Administrators have now published their final report detailing how the situation is to be improved taking on board public opinion following a campaign in March 2013 that saw over 50,000 people take to the streets in a march to keep NHS paediatric and child services in the town.
This report has proposed that maternity services at Stafford Hospital be downgraded – opposed to closed as was originally suggested – and that a new midwife-led maternity unit be created at the hospital. This will leave consultant services for complicated births to be handled at University Hospital of North Staffordshire and Cannock Hospital to be run by the Royal Wolverhampton Trust.
It is also proposed that the paediatric assessment unit at Stafford Hospital is to be run in tandem with the emergency department which will be managed by emergency paediatric doctors and paediatric nurses. Children that are required to stay overnight will be cared for in other hospitals due to the 10pm closure of the emergency department.
The trust special administrators have also recommended that the name of the hospital should be changed.
Despite these proposals there are still concerns about how this will impact on patient services.
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