Marchers back Stafford Hospital
Thousands of campaigners battling to keep major services at the scandal-hit Stafford Hospital will take to the local streets to protest against a withdrawal of services, including maternity care.
Mid Staffs is first Foundation Trust in administration
The Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has become the first foundation trust in the country to be put into administration.
Special administrators will take over the running of the scandal-hit trust from today.
The current executive team will report to the trust special administrators, clinician Dr Hugo Mascie-Taylor and Alan Bloom of Ernst and Young, Regulator Monitor said.
Special administrators would be given 45 working days to design a way of providing services to patients in the area "that is sustainable in the long term".
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