DISGRACED hospitals boss Rose Gibb may be giving health care advice as part of a private consultancy, it has emerged.

It has been revealed that Miss Gibb's partner, Mark Rees, is the managing director of Resolve Healthcare Consulting Services.

Miss Gibb resigned her £150,000 a year position as head of the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust just four days before a damning Healthcare Commission report revealed that 90 people died of a superbug at the trust's hospitals between 2004 and 2006.

In total, there were 1,176 cases of C-diff.

The report also highlighted failures in basic hygiene and keeping wards clean, which had fuelled the C-diff outbreaks and found some nurses were telling patients to "go to the toilet in your beds."

According to the Resolve website, the company is based at Miss Gibb and Mr Rees's home in Cobham, near Gravesend.

It says the firm "offers expert skills and knowledge from its people who have substantive NHS chief executive and executive director experience in NHS England and Wales, covering acute and specialist care, community services, mental health services and health authority management".

The consultancy also advises on Private Finance Initiatives, service reconfigurations and team building, relationship management and conflict resolution.

Both Miss Gibb and Mr Rees received substantial pay-offs after leaving their trusts in October last year.

Miss Gibb was paid a severance of £75,000 last week, while Mr Rees, formerly chief executive of Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust, received £170,000 after leaving his job on October 1.

Resolve Healthcare Consulting Services refused to comment.