BUG SCANDAL BOSS GETS NEW NHS JOB

A HOSPITAL boss who quit in shame after being blamed for the death of 33 patients from a superbug is back working for the NHS.

Ruth Harrison has landed a pounds 52,000-a-year job as a consultant at Epsom and St Helier Hospital in Surrey where she will report on whether wards should be shut down.

Ms Harrison left her job at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Bucks, with a pounds 140,000 pay-off the day before a damning report blamed the team she managed for an outbreak of Clostridium Difficile. Thirty-three patients died and 334 fell ill at the hospital over a three-year period from 2003.

Last night local MP Chris Grayling said: "This totally insensitive appointment will cause a lot of anger."

But an Epsom hospital spokesman defended their decision, saying: "She has considerable experience in the NHS."

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