THE hospital at the centre of the superbug scandal was being visited today by Healthcare Commission officials.

Officials are completing a two-day visit to Maidstone Hospital, run by the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

The visit is a follow up to a damning report published in October by the Healthcare Commission, revealing that 90 people, who had the C-diff bug died, between April 2004 and September 2006, at the trust's hospitals.

The report also criticised the trust's previous management for not noticing the scale of the outbreaks and for being more preoccupied with NHS targets and finances.

Hospital management do not know which members of staff could be called during the visit to speak to the commission.

Since the hospital hit the headlines in the wake of the scandal, the trust says it has totally changed its procedures on tackling superbugs.

Last month, Dr Sara Mumford was appointed director of infection prevention and control.

Her first task was to deal with a small C-diff outbreak at the end of November, which affected six patients.

She has also pledged that C-diff and MRSA cases at the trust's hospitals will be reduced in six months.

Dr Mumford said: "We have now set up an isolation ward for patients with confirmed C-diff.

"If we suspect someone has the infection we will isolate them on their ward first, while the diagnosis is confirmed. If it is we will move them to the isolation ward."

Much of hospital management and the board, who were in post when the major C-diff outbreaks happened have either resigned or been sacked, and moves are still in place to halt any severance payment to former chief executive, Rose Gibb.