All Rose Gibb articles – Page 3

  • News

    Rose Gibb defends NHS chief executives in witness box

    2009-01-27T15:14:45Z

    Rose Gibb told the High Court today that if NHS chief executives resigned every time a patient died “there would be an awful lot of empty seats in the NHS”.In the witness box this morning, Ms Gibb defended her record running Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust. She said the trust ...

  • News

    Rose Gibb lawyer claims payoff was fair

    2009-01-27T11:00:00Z

    Rose Gibb’s battle to get her compensation payoff went to the High Court yesterday – where she was met by a barrage of photographers and cameramen.Ms Gibb - who is expected to give evidence today - is suing her former employer, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, for breach of contract. ...

  • News

    Rose Gibb goes to court to fight for payoff

    2009-01-26T11:01:00Z

    Rose Gibb, the former chief executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, goes to the High Court today to try to get her controversial payoff.Ms Gibb, who left the trust just days before the publication of a critical Healthcare Commission report into outbreaks of C difficile, is claiming damages for ...

  • News

    Rose Gibb's pay bid heads for court

    2009-01-22T09:00:00Z

    The former chief executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust goes to court next week in a bid to get her controversial pay-off.

  • News

    Rose Gibb's pay off challenge: court date set

    2008-10-30T09:00:00Z

    Rose Gibb, the former chief executive of Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, will go to court early next year to try to get a £250,000 pay-off.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    NHS infection control: a clean bill of health

    2008-10-06T09:00:00Z

    Last October Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust was the subject of sensational headlines over deadly superbug outbreaks. A year on, under a new chief executive, it is being transformed from ward to board

  • News

    Trusts warned C difficile probe decision sets no precedent

    2008-08-07T09:00:00Z

    The decision not to launch a criminal investigation into deaths at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust will not set a precedent, NHS managers have been warned.

  • News

    SHAs and trusts lock horns over future shape of workforce

    2008-07-31T09:00:00Z

    The government’s NHS workforce strategy is sidelining trusts and fuelling rows with strategic health authorities, managers have told HSJ.Health minister Lord Darzi’s next stage review is being criticised for granting SHAs extra workforce planning powers and saying little about non-clinical managers.

  • News

    No prosecutions over Maidstone deaths

    2008-07-30T14:40:00Z

    No-one will face prosecution over the deaths of 90 patients from C difficile at a Kent trust, it was announced today.Kent police and the Health and Safety Executive said they would take no further action after a review prompted by the critical Healthcare Commission report into Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells ...

  • Leader

    Darzi review will be a success when it causes managers grief

    2008-07-03T09:00:00Z

    Lord Darzi’s next stage review has been met with a remarkable degree of support. The few critics have failed to shoot any substantial holes in it.

  • Comment

    Media Watch: nurses' paperwork

    2008-05-01T09:00:00Z

    Research suggesting nurses are drowning in paperwork generated a deluge of angry comment. 'The managers who preside over this shambles have blood on their hands,' screamed the News of the World.

  • News

    Gibb sues former employer

    2008-04-10T09:00:00Z

    Rose Gibb, the former chief executive who received a £75,000 pay-off after presiding over a fatal infection outbreak, was prepared to 'stay and face the music', according to her trade union. She is suing her former employer for a further £175,000 plus interest, claiming she was forced to leave.

  • News

    Trust reveals price of advice on chief's payout

    2008-02-28T09:00:00Z

    Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust has revealed it spent nearly £23,000 on legal advice over the severance payment to its former chief executive Rose Gibb.

  • News

    Call to bar worst managers

    2008-01-31T09:00:00Z

    The leader of the UK's hospital doctors is calling for greater regulation of managers - with powers to stop them working in healthcare in extreme cases.

  • News

    Anger over C difficile pay-off

    2008-01-25T11:21:00Z

    The former chief executive of a trust at the centre of an infection control scandal is to get a £75,000 pay-off.Rose Gibb, who led Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust, will only get her 'legal entitlement' of six months' salary, the trust said yesterday.

  • News

    Move to stop NHS re-hiring sacked executives

    2007-12-20T09:00:00Z

    Glowing references for sacked senior managers could be banned in a government clampdown on embarrassing pay-offs.

  • HSJ Knowledge

    HSJ review of the year: jobless doctors, lethal bugs and a £1.8bn pile of unspent cash

    2007-12-20T09:00:00Z

    A year with more than its fair share of drama saw medics on the streets, C difficile in the wards, Blair and Hewitt on the way out - and an embarrassing surplus in the bank. By Richard Vize

  • News

    £170k pay-off for chief who left £36m deficit

    2007-12-06T09:00:00Z

    The outgoing chief executive of a trust facing a £36m deficit left with a £170,000 pay-off.

  • News

    Maidstone non-executive directors warn of 'scapegoating'

    2007-11-29T09:00:00Z

    Three non-executive directors who resigned from Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust are to write to non-executives around the country outlining their experience - and warning it could happen to others.

  • News

    MP attacks SHA over pay-off to disgraced Maidstone chief

    2007-11-22T09:00:00Z

    The government has come under renewed pressure over the Clostridium difficile outbreak at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust.