http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19936195
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The Department of Health (DoH) is to investigate the decision to appoint Sir Jimmy Savile as head of a taskforce overseeing Broadmoor hospital in 1988.
The DoH said the claims were "disturbing" and the entertainer should not have been appointed to the role.
The DoH said it would look at the role it had in appointing Savile to his post at Broadmoor. At the time it had responsibility for running the high security hospital but West London Mental Health NHS Trust has run the hospital since 2001.
The Guardian reported that Savile's appointment came in 1988 after the hospital's management board was dismissed by the then health secretary Ken Clarke.
However, Mr Clarke's special adviser said the Conservative MP, who was made health secretary in July 1988, had no recollection of this, and the appointment may not have been made when he was in his post.
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Who appointed a DJ to run a mental hospital? They must have been insane themselves!