NHS trust pays temporary boss £47,000 a month
‘A struggling NHS trust is paying £47,000 a month for a temporary finance chief despite a Government order to halt the “excessive and indefensible” rates paid on short-term contracts, an investigation by The Daily Telegraph has found.
Barts NHS trust, which has the highest bill for agency doctors and nurses and is forecasting the greatest deficit in the history of the NHS, is paying rates equivalent to an annual salary of £561,000.
In a private letter to the heads of all NHS trusts, leaked to The Daily Telegraph, Jeremy Hunt orders a clamping down on the practice which allows roving NHS executives to earn up to £600,000 a year. Some senior managers have earned up to £3,000 a day.’
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