Bug boss in appeal.THE NHS NHS abbr. National Health Service NHS (in Britain) National Health Service boss at the centre of Britain's worst hospital superbug su·per·bug n. Any of various disease-causing bacteria that develop a resistance to drugs normally used to control or eradicate them. superbug outbreak has been given the go-ahead to appeal after losing a court battle over a pounds 175,000 pay-off. Rose Gibb, former chief executive of the Maidstone andTunbridgeWellsNHSTrust in Kent, went to court after the Government withheld the payment offered in return for her resignation after the outbreak which killed 90. The High Court rejected her claim for breach of contract against the trust in April but yesterday, Lady Justice Arden allowed her to take her case to the court of appeal for a hearing, scheduled for March. Gibb left her pounds 150,000 post at the trust in October 2007, days before a highly critical report was published on the spread of C diff on overcrowded o·ver·crowd v. o·ver·crowd·ed, o·ver·crowd·ing, o·ver·crowds v.tr. To cause to be excessively crowded: a system of consolidation that only overcrowded the classrooms. and dirty wards. |
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