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.
NHS hospitals across the UK - including three in the North East - published the findings of their investigations into the disgraced entertainer Jimmy Savile.
Jimmy Savile visited the children's wards of the Royal Victoria Infirmary and Newcastle General Hospital in the 1980s and 1990s. An investigation by Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals has found nothing untoward happened during the visits.
Arising out of an exhaustive investigation, these presentations appeared to coincide with the Great North Run. Nothing untoward occured and there was continual supervision."
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