By Emma Brady Good Hope Hospital became the first in the country to be run by a private company in 2003, when the Government awarded health firm Secta a three-year franchise worth pounds 1.3 million.

By Emma Brady In 2006 Good Hope Hospital was a debtridden trust facing a "worst case scenario" deficit of pounds 47.5 million. But a partnership deal brokered by a neighbouring trust helped turn it round.

By Alison Dayani NEARLY pounds 4.5 million is to be pumped into boosting A&E, nurses and treatment at a trouble-hit Birmingham hospital, it was revealed today.

A BIRMINGHAM dad nearly died after hospital doctors missed an easy to spot life-threatening condition THREE times. And when Clive Page was finally treated at Good Hope, Hospital, he caught MRSA.