Julie Bailey told ITV Daybreak that small district hospitals "are not the safest of places. They're a thing of the past. They need to be moving forward"
She suggests that they link with bigger training hospitals.
VIDEO: Hate campaigners target Bailey's mother's grave
Julie Bailey tells ITV Daybreak her mother's grave was targeted by hate campaigners, after she angered people by exposing the scandal of patient abuse and neglect at Stafford Hospital.
Julie Bailey: We want his resignation, if not his sacking
NHS campaigner Julie Bailey, who set up Cure the NHS after her mother Bella died at Stafford Hospital in 2007, has said she will ask members of the NHS Commissioning Board to call for their boss' resignation:
We want his [Sir David Nicholson's] resignation, if not his sacking.
He has brought the NHS into disrepute.
We are planning to lobby members of the board to call for him to resign.