Mid Staffs hospital to be stripped of major services after scandal Julie Bailey, who set up Cure the NHS, a patients" campaign group which exposed the failings, after the death of her mother Bella, said she was driven out of the town last month following threats by protesters in the town who blamed her for the threat to local services. Yesterday administrators said that Stafford Hospital will keep its A&E unit, but it will remain closed at nights, after military doctors drafted in to assist the unit in autumn 2011 warned it did not have enough staff to operate safely. The plans, which will now be subject to public consultation, will also see major emergency surgery and most trauma care, neonatal services and paediatric inpatient services moved to other hospitals in the region. The trust will be taken over by other NHS organisations. Trust Special Administrators said that without major change "future local patient safety is at stake" and said the organisation was too small to provide safe services, because it could not hire or retain enough specialist doctors to give patients good quality clinical care. However, they said the changes would mean that more than 90 per cent of patients treated by the trust would still receive their care there. The proposals will now be put out to public consultation. The report found that the NHS trust was spending £20 million more than its budget each year. The proposals may also have consequences for the rest of the country. Senior officials have said major changes will be required across most parts of England to centralise hospitals, so there are enough specialist doctors at each, and the funding goes far enough. On Wednesday administrators at Mid Staffs said: "Larger specialist hospitals have more patients so their specialist doctors' skills are kept current and they learn new techniques."