Essex hospital fined £350,000
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been ordered to pay fines and costs of £350,000 for failing to ensure the safety of its patients.
Hospital fined for 'failing to protect patients'
A hospital has been forced to pay almost £400,000 for failings that led to patients contracting legionnaires' disease. Two men died, and 6 other patients were infected, during the outbreak at Basildon Hospital.
A judge today fined the hospital trust and blamed managers for putting the public at risk. Serena Sandhu reports.
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