Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

[1] In 2012, following a £19.9 million annual deficit, the regulator, Monitor, sent in a team to resolve the trust's poor financial situation.

[6] The 2010 independent investigation report recommended that the regulator, Monitor, de-authorise the Foundation Trust status.

[11] The Trust subsequently reported that senior staff had left and it was unable to recruit permanent replacements so elective surgery would be stopped in order to concentrate resources on urgent care.

Part of the money will be used to refurbish the A&E department at Stafford, in order to double the space and reduce overcrowding.

[13] In 2017 the two trusts which took over services - Stoke and Wolverhampton - were still looking for extra financial support as the transition funding of more than £300m had expired.