A hospital trust has been ordered to pay over £350,000 for two separate incidents, one of which involved the death of a patient who developed Legionnaires' Disease. Raymond Cackett, 54, died in March 2010 after developing the disease, which also contributed to the death of James Compton, 74, in June 2007. In both cases legionella was deemed to be a significant contributor to the deaths. Between 2006 and 2010, a further five patients and one visitor at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust were infected with legionella. The prosecution on 4 September follows an earlier prosecution of the trust in 2004 for failure to manage the risk from exposure to legionella. On that occasion, the trust pleaded guilty and was fined £25,000.
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