History of scandals at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust

As health regulator Monitor announces that Mdid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust is to be put into administration, a look back at the scandals which have marred the Trust for years:

• In 2009, a highly-critical report by the Healthcare Commission revealed a catalogue of failings at the trust and said "appalling standards" put patients at risk.
• Between 400 and 1,200 more people died than would have been expected in a three-year period from 2005 to 2008, the Commission said.

• In February 2010, an independent inquiry into events at the trust found it had "routinely neglected patients".
• The was named as 'unsustainable' by an independent investigation in January.

• A criminal investigation began earlier this month into the death of Gillian Astbury, who died after slipping into a diabetic coma at the hospital in 2007.