Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government why maternity and paediatric services at Stafford Hospital are to be transferred to the University Hospital of North Staffordshire without the application of a "double lock" system.
The Trust Special Administrators and local organisations are working together to ensure that the recommendations are implemented to secure safe services for patients across Staffordshire.
These changes are moving towards the implementation phase and we have been clear that services can only move if it is safe to do so as agreed by both organisations and also externally validated (the ‘double lock’).