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One staff nurse and another healthcare assistant have been disciplined but will remain at the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, a trust spokesman said.

The sanctions come in the fall-out from a damning Healthcare Commission report and as police and health and safety officials continue investigations into patient care at the trust.

The two dismissed members of staff worked at Maidstone Hospital and the others are employed at the Kent and Sussex Hospital in Tunbridge Wells.

The action followed an investigation into care standards at the trust, the spokesman said.

Trust acting chief executive Glenn Douglas said: "We are acting firmly to give a clear message to any member of staff behaving inappropriately."

The Healthcare Commission report revealed a litany of errors that allowed the C diff bug to thrive in hospitals under the trust's management.

Appalling hygiene standards at the Kent and Sussex Hospital, Pembury Hospital, and Maidstone Hospital contributed to outbreaks that were linked to 90 deaths.

A total of 345 people died while infected with the bug and more than 1,100 people were infected across a two-year period, prompting Health Secretary Alan Johnson to apologise for the "truly scandalous" outbreak.