The administrators of Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust have been granted more time to prepare a report into how the trust should be run. The trust runs Stafford Hospital, where hundreds of patients died needlessly between 2005 and 2009.
The administrators for Stafford Hospital that took over on April 16th had 45 days to come up with a plan of how to turn the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust around - with a report due out next week.
They have now asked Monitor for a 30-day extension to that deadline. A decision on whether to grant the extension could be made by the board of Monitor next week.
All public consultation meetings already announced will now be cancelled and re-scheduled, if the extension is granted.
What does the decision to appoint trust special administrators to run Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust mean?
The Health Secretary's response came after failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust, which highlighted the suffering of hundreds of people.
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