THE Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust will hold emergency talks with Kent County council today.

The meeting follows Thursday's shocking Healthcare Commission report that found the trust at fault for two outbreaks of the superbug Clostridium Difficile (C-diff) between October 2005 and September 2006.

Interim chief exective Glenn Douglas and other trust officials will join KCC bosses at a public cabinet meeting at Maidstone to discuss the situation.

The outbreak claimed at least 90 lives and infected as many as 1,170.

A total of 345 patients who died at the trust's three hospitals in Maidstone, Tunbridge Wells and Pembury, from various causes had the infection.

There has been widespread calls for the trust's board members to resign.

The Trust's latest annual report, viewable on its website, names the board members as: James Lee, chairman, Graham Goddard, estate development director, Malcolm Stewart, medical director, Frank Sims, corporate development director, Morfydd Williams, ICT program director, Jim Hope, finance director and Amy Page, chief nurse. The non-exec directors are names as Gina Jennings, Aaron Cockell, Simon Ingman, Jonathan Paine and Bruce Sheppy.

Rose Gibb, the chief executive in charge during the two outbreaks, stepped down on October 5.

Health Secretary Alan Johnson ordered the Trust to withhold any severance payment to Ms Gibb.

A Trust statement said she "had left by mutual agreement".

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