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Hospital bug deaths probe continues

Updated on 12 October 2007

Source PA News

Police and health and safety officials are to continue investigating a hospital trust and its chief executive after poor hygiene standards were linked to patient deaths.

Health Secretary Alan Johnson ordered that severance payments to Rose Gibb be withheld after she stepped down as head of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

The Clostridium difficile (C diff) bacterium was linked to 90 deaths at the Kent and Sussex Hospital, Pembury Hospital and Maidstone Hospital.

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