Nine informal complaints were made about the sexual behaviour of paedophile Jimmy Savile at Stoke Mandeville Hospital but none "were either taken seriously or escalated to senior management", a report into his abuse of 60 victims there has found. A formal complaint was also made but later dropped.
Jeremy Hunt says he will ensure "swift action" is taken in the NHS to prevent future abuses of patients akin to those carried out by Jimmy Savile.
The Health Secretary said he accepted in principal recommendations of Kate Lampard's report into the lessons learned by the Savile case.
Those included new rules on access, volunteering, safeguarding patients, dealing with complaints and governance.
He said NHS Trusts should develop policies on dealing with celebrity visitors, as was also recommended in the report.
However, he said he would not accept the recommendation that all volunteers should be made to go through enhanced checks, saying the report stated that this "may not in itself have stopped Savile".
The trauma of staff and patients at Stoke Mandeville Hospital who were subjected to attacks by Jimmy Savile has been laid bare in a report.
Two reports released today give insight into the abuses carried out by Jimmy Savile, and how "many elements" could be repeated in future.
Stoke Mandeville Hospital staff knew of Jimmy Savile's abuse of young patients, a lawyer has said ahead of a report to be published later.