FORMER hospital boss Rose Gibb is to get up to £75,000 as a pay-off for leaving the trust at the centre of the C-diff scandal.

Miss Gibb resigned her position as chief executive of the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust last October, a few days before a damning Healthcare Commission report revealed 90 people had died of the C-diff infection between 2004 to 2006, at the trust's three hospitals.

A spokesman for the hospitals trust said Miss Gibb was being paid her "legal entitlement" which is six months pay.

The trust's annual report showed Miss Gibb was paid an annual salary of between £145,000 and £150,000.

Speculation was that Miss Gibb would receive a severance of anything from a £250,000 to £400,000 payment for leaving her post.

But health secretary, Alan Johnson, was so appalled at the situation at the trust, that he intervened personally to block the payment.

A hospitals trust spokesman added: "The trust has taken legal advice on the matter of the severance agreement for the former chief executive, Rose Gibb, and following the advice she will be paid her legal entitlement of six months salary.

"The decision is being made known to Miss Gibb."