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An NHS chief offered a payment to an employee who was considering legal action over the deaths of his wife and newborn son in an alleged "hush money" deal.
Tony Halsall, the former hospital trust chief executive at the centre of a police investigation into infant deaths, made the offer of ?3,000 to Carl Hendrickson, whose wife and son died at Furness General Hospital in Cumbria.
The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust has confirmed that the offer of a "goodwill" payment is being investigated.
A spokesperson said: "The allegations now put to this new Board that this offer of a payment is being considered as ?hush money? will be treated extremely seriously and investigated further.?
Mr Hendrickson's wife, Nittaya, suffered a rare embolism during childbirth at Furness General Hospital in Cumbria, passing away an hour later.
Their baby, Chester, died the next day.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...o-employee-after-death-of-wife-and-child.html
Tony Halsall, the former hospital trust chief executive at the centre of a police investigation into infant deaths, made the offer of ?3,000 to Carl Hendrickson, whose wife and son died at Furness General Hospital in Cumbria.
The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust has confirmed that the offer of a "goodwill" payment is being investigated.
A spokesperson said: "The allegations now put to this new Board that this offer of a payment is being considered as ?hush money? will be treated extremely seriously and investigated further.?
Mr Hendrickson's wife, Nittaya, suffered a rare embolism during childbirth at Furness General Hospital in Cumbria, passing away an hour later.
Their baby, Chester, died the next day.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h...o-employee-after-death-of-wife-and-child.html