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Haunting diagnosis will cost us dear

Feb 1 2009 by Ken Oxley, Sunday Sun

THERE’S probably a paragraph somewhere in a management handbook that stresses the importance of taking staff concerns seriously, however ridiculous they might seem.

If so, I suspect Debbie Butler — a senior manager at the Royal Derby Hospital — has not only read it, but memorised it word for word.

Why else would she call in an exorcist to rid the building of a ghost?

Staff at the new £334m hospital claim to have seen spooky images of a cloaked figure stalking the wards, which they believe is the ghost of a Roman soldier killed on the site.

Surely, someone is having a laugh at Debbie’s expense. Worryingly, it might also be at our expense.

How much will this exorcism cost the NHS, I wonder?

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