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Plans to dissolve the trust that runs the scandal-hit Stafford Hospital have been approved by the health watchdog, Monitor.
Trust Special Administrators (TSA) laid out plans in December to downgrade Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust and move some services to other hospitals.
The trust has been in administration since April.
The plans have been passed to the secretary of state who has 30 working days to announce his decision.
The Support Stafford Hospital group said it awaited Jeremy Hunt's decision and hoped it would be "sooner rather than later, so as to end the long period of uncertainty caused by the TSA process".
Under the proposals, control of Stafford Hospital will go to University Hospital of North Staffordshire (UHNS) and Cannock Hospital will be run by Royal Wolverhampton Trust.
Maternity services, paediatrics and critical care at Stafford Hospital will be downgraded.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-25757612
Trust Special Administrators (TSA) laid out plans in December to downgrade Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust and move some services to other hospitals.
The trust has been in administration since April.
The plans have been passed to the secretary of state who has 30 working days to announce his decision.
The Support Stafford Hospital group said it awaited Jeremy Hunt's decision and hoped it would be "sooner rather than later, so as to end the long period of uncertainty caused by the TSA process".
Under the proposals, control of Stafford Hospital will go to University Hospital of North Staffordshire (UHNS) and Cannock Hospital will be run by Royal Wolverhampton Trust.
Maternity services, paediatrics and critical care at Stafford Hospital will be downgraded.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-25757612