This has been on the cards for along time now and there were rumours of it well before Summara left. It is not a viable hospital and in general the care is hit and miss, positive experiences of the place are purely based on luck and how busy, how well staffed any department providing the care is at the time. The problem is no one wants to work there. They struggle every year to meet their quota for newly qualified doctors and basically the dregs of the uk and the rest of the world end up working there in general, there are still some good docs working there. There is currently a job freeze and they are making redundancies, morale is the lowest it has ever been. The amount of staff suspended is chronic, even more the amount off long term sick.
Stafford Hospital is dieing, Antony Summara spent the budget of Luxemborg trying to turn the place around executing anyone who got in his way. Now the hospital is massively in the red. Me personally, I hate the place with all my heart and soul, what it has done to me and family over the last 4 years is enough to send anyone below a train. Half the staff who work there refuse to be treated in the place.
Yes I know there are still decent people who work there and I have every ounce of empathy for them, but no one can challenge my view point on the place because I know exactly what is going on.
Phew, that was heavy