Savile: Hospital reports findings
NHS hospitals across the UK - including three in the North East - published the findings of their investigations into the disgraced entertainer Jimmy Savile.
Newcastle MP calls for further investigations into Savile
A Newcastle MP has called for further inquiries into the behaviour of the disgraced presenter Jimmy Savile.
A report into Savile's connections with hospitals in Newcastle concluded he had visited on a handful of occasions from the 1980s, with visits appearing to coincide with the Great North Run.
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust report concluded that 'nothing untoward occurred and there was continual supervision'.
The Newcastle Central MP Chi Onwurah asked the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt whether an 'overarching independent inquiry' into Savile was needed. Mr Hunt said such an inquiry was already taking place but he hoped that any further victims of Savile's abuse would be encouraged to come forward.
Watch their exchange here:
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