FURTHER victims of Jimmy Savile at Leeds General Infirmary have come forward - as a former nurse said she believed she saw him in the hospital's mortuary as long ago as 1954.

The fresh allegations emerged in a new report published yesterday about the former TV presenter and serial sex abuser, who died in 2011, which said he abused a total of 60 victims at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Bucks between 1968 and 1992.

New LGI victims identified themselves following the publication of the main report last June on Savile's activities at the infirmary, which is used by patients from York and North Yorkshire as well as Leeds.

A teenage boy alleged he had been taken to the X-ray department on his own and was left sitting in a wheelchair wearing a dressing gown, when he was approached by Savile, who then moved his hand under his hospital dressing gown and touched his genitals.

A former nurse said she was warned about the activities of someone she believed to have been Savile in the LGI mortuary in1954, when she was a trainee nurse.

She said she was heading down to the mortuary when the ward sister told her "to be careful and come back if the pink-haired man is there".

When she went to the mortuary, he was there so she turned round and went back to the ward, and she was convinced the man was Savile.

The report said: "She felt angry that there were people in a position of authority who she felt knew about Savile and she was cross that nobody said or did anything about it."

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced yesterday that £40 million will be made available for compensation claims by Savile's victims from his estate and charities. If that money is exhausted, claims could be funded from the public purse, he told the Commons.

"I can confirm that any counselling the victims need will be made available to them by the NHS," he added.

The report sets out a number of recommendations to ensure nothing like the Savile scandal can happen again.

Its author, Kate Lampard, confirmed Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt had already accepted 13 out of 14 of her recommendations in principle.

Mandatory reporting, where staff would have a legal duty to report abuse to the police, was not suggested by Ms Lampard.

"It would have significant implications for the way that professionals involved in safeguarding work," she said.

Mr Hunt told the Commons he turned down her suggestion that NHS volunteers should be subject to enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks, although he said that those who worked in regulated activity - such as close or unsupervised contact with patients - should do so.