The NHS manager responsible for Britain's deadliest outbreak of a hospital superbug was given a payoff worth more than £250,000 to quit her job last week before the Healthcare Commission produced a damning report on her trust's mismanagement, the Guardian has learned. Rose Gibb, who earned £150,000 a year as chief executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells hospitals, stepped down last Friday. Five days later the commission accused the trust of "significant failings in infection control" that caused the deaths of 90 patients between April 2004 and September 2006.
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