In July 2013 two Stafford Hospital nurses were struck off the nursing register for falsifying A&E discharge times between 2000-2010 to avoid breaches of four-hour waiting targets [REF].
In May 2015 it was announced that children's services and 8 beds for haematology and oncology patients would be transferred away from the hospital to Royal Stoke University Hospital and Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust as part of larger specialist wards.