Former health chief Rose Gibb faces a wait to find out whether she will receive a £250,000 pay-off.

Mr Justice Treacy told the High Court he would make a reserved judgement, giving him more time to go over the complex legal arguments.

Miss Gibb, the former chief executive of the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, is suing the trust for £175,000.

She presided over one of the worst superbug outbreaks, in which 90 patients died from the C-diff bacteria.

She says the cash is an unpaid part of a £250,000 severance package she was promised in October 2007.

But the trust now claims it exceeded its legal powers in making the deal, which was never approved by the Treasury, and says she is only due a £75,000 pay-off.

It is not yet known when the final judgement will be given.

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