A former health chief executive who claimed he was gagged by the NHS has told MPs he was put under increasing pressure to meet targets.
Gary Walker, the ex-United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust boss, said he was sacked because of a row over an 18-week non-emergency waiting list target.
He said he was forced to abandon the plan when demands for emergency beds became too acute.
Mr Walker was dismissed in 2010 for "gross professional misconduct".
The NHS said he was sacked for allegedly swearing in a meeting.
'Red alert'Speaking for the first time in public, Mr Walker told the health select committee staff had been forced to cancel 700 operations when hospitals were full of emergency cases in 2009.
He said he had to put Lincoln County Hospital on an emergency footing, or red alert, but felt pressurised by health executives.
Mr Walker told the committee: "I got a phone call from [Dame] Barbara Hakin [former chief executive of the East Midlands Strategic Health Authority] saying 'we're about to approve £11m of funding for your trust and that's going to be very difficult while you're on red alert'.
"I don't personally see the link between £11m of largely capital funding to build facilities and being on red alert, the two are separate.
"One is about operationally running a hospital safely and the other one is about longer term plans."
Mr Walker said he had to sign an agreement following his sacking which prevented him talking about the waiting list row.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust is one of 14 hospital trusts in England currently being investigated for high death rates.
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