THE hospital boss who moved key birthing services out of Wycombe before getting a golden handshake has a new job - reviewing' the same services in Surrey.

Ruth Harrison, who as chief executive of Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust drove through the changes, has landed a consultancy role in the county.

Here she will review women's and children's services - moves which in Bucks saw Wycombe Hospital lose consultant-led births to Aylesbury.

Her new employers praised her considerable and relevant senior experience'.

But Wycombe MP Paul Goodman said Bucks' loss is Epsom's loss'.

Mrs Harrison quit Bucks in July last year, shortly before a damning report was published on an outbreak of superbug clostridium difficile.

The Healthcare Commission report into the Stoke Mandeville, Aylesbury outbreak said senior management had been pre-occupied with finance.

Reorganising Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust, new buildings and achieving targets meant staff warnings were ignored, it said.

At the trust Ms Harrison oversaw the Shaping Health Services' consultation which also saw serious A&E trauma cases sent to Stoke Mandeville instead of Wycombe.

The changes to women's and children's services will go ahead at the end of this year - five years after being agreed.

Yet Mrs Harrison got a payout of at least £140,000 when she left the trust.

Her post before this was managing Kidderminster General Hospital, the high profile downgrading of which saw the election of independent MP Dr Richard Taylor.

Now Mrs Harrison is heading to Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust.

A trust statement said: "Following a competitive tendering process, specialist health management consultancy Durrow has been hired to manage a review of women's and children's services at Epsom and St Helier hospitals.

"The lead consultant from Durrow, who will act as Programme Director, is Ruth Harrison, who has considerable and relevant senior experience in the NHS."

Wycombe MP Paul Goodman said: "The facts are she made the changes despite the opposition of 40,000 people.

"I have never known a public institution so evasive, unresponsive and distrusted by its own staff as the trust under Ruth Harrison's regime.

"I think it is fair to say matters have improved somewhat since."