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A decision to delay a key ministerial announcement on the dissolution of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust by nine working days cost Monitor up to £125,000, HSJ can exclusively reveal.
According to an internal e-mail released by the regulator under the Freedom of Information Act, the health secretary had been due to accept the recommendations of the Mid Staffs Trust Special Administrators on 13 February.
Monitor was alerted to the nine-day delay by Jeremy Hunt's office and would attract a financial cost, the e-mail from the regulator's enforcement director Katherine Cawley to Jason Dorsett, its director of finance reporting and risk indicates....