article_snippet.sent: Dame Barbara Hakin, national director of commissioning operations for NHS England, is facing the threat of a new inquiry into claims Dame Barbara Hakin, national director of commissioning operations for NHS England,  put patient safety at risk in a drive to meet targets .
article_snippet.sent: The most powerful woman in the NHS is facing the threat of a new inquiry into claims that The most powerful woman in the NHS put patient safety at risk in a drive to meet targets, the Mail can reveal.
article_snippet.sent: Dame Barbara Hakin, national director of commissioning operations for NHS England, was accused of gagging a whistleblower who tried to warn about the impact of targets on ordinary patients.
article_snippet.sent: Dame Barbara, 57, a former Bradford GP who worked alongside Sir David Nicholson when Sir David Nicholson was NHS chief, was criticised for the gagging of whistleblower Gary Walker while The most powerful woman in the NHS was in charge of East Midlands Strategic Health Authority.
article_snippet.sent: whistleblower Gary Walker and other senior executives at the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) claim that Mr Walker and other senior executives at the United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust had raised concerns with The most powerful woman in the NHS that the enforcement of targets – implemented by the last Labour government – was endangering lives.
article_snippet.sent: Dame Barbara, 57, a former GP, was criticised for the gagging of whistleblower Gary Walker (above), who tried to warn about the impact of targets, while she was in charge of East Midlands Strategic Health Authority .
article_snippet.sent: she was in charge of East Midlands Strategic Health Authority
article_snippet.sent: ’ Dame Barbara, who earns around £205,000 in her current role and was referred to as the most powerful woman in the NHS by the Health Service Journal, said the original allegations were ‘spurious and vexatious’.
article_snippet.sent: her alleged ’ Dame Barbara, who earns around £205,000 in her current role and was referred to as the most powerful woman in the NHS by the Health Service Journal stemmed from the ‘failure’ of the ULHT board to manage the hospital and the hospital was a ‘campaign to discredit her’.
article_snippet.sent: Labour insisted that Labour was ‘always clear that NHS targets should not be implemented in a way that jeopardises the quality of patient care’.
highlights_snippet.sent: Dame Barbara Hakin, 57, facing threat of a new inquiry over patient safety .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: she risked lives in a drive to meet set targets .
  