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.
NHS organisations must keep a closer check on famous volunteers and visitors for signs of grooming and sexual abuse, a report into the lessons learned from Jimmy Savile's abuse in hospitals has found.
"Our investigations disclosed that many NHS volunteer programmes are not managed and overseen at a senior level, and do not have the management resources they need," report author Kate Lampard said.
She added that her investigation suggested most NHS organisations still do not have "adequately explicit and robust processes for managing their relationships with celebrities, important visitors, fundraisers and donors.
The report called for a "robust policy for agreeing to and managing" these visits, and said this must be applied to all such visitors, whoever they may be".
Lampard said the "clear message" taken from the investigations was that preventing similar abuses in future "rests above all on training and retraining staff on how to create a safe environment and to identify and act upon signs of risk".
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.