Scandal-Hit Hospital Faces Administration

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Byline: BENHURST

Acrisis-hit Midland hospital could be forced into administration as it emerged that it faces financial meltdown.

Experts are to be called in to the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust to put it back on a viable footing, regulator Monitor has said. Firms offering financial advice, accountancy, administrative and legal services are being called in to recommend how the scandal-hit trust should run its services.

The experts will explore a number of options including hiving off services to private healthcare providers and they could even recommend that the trust is put into special administration.

Monitor said the move is aimed at …