Diana Smith

Diana Smith is a member of the Support Stafford Hospital campaign. She has been following the events at mid Staffordshire hospital closely since 2007.

Smaller maternity hospitals can be safer - is government willing to pay for them?

Will Cameron's intervention reprieve Stafford Hospital's well regarded maternity unit? Or will it remain under threat as 'too small', heralding an uncertain future for over 50 more maternity units across the country?

By Diana Smith

/ 5 Mar 2014

Mid Staffs and the great hospital scale-back?

Mid Staffordshire hospital is ‘unsustainable’, we are told. But is the controversy being used to test drive a dramatic scaling-back of hospital provision, especially for mothers and children, elsewhere in the country?

By Diana Smith

/ 23 Dec 2013