article_snippet.sent: The sum is almost five times the Prime Minister’s £142,500 pay packet – and comes as thousands of patients struggle to get on the books of NHS practices.
article_snippet.sent: Katherine Murphy, of the Patients Association, said the rates of pay were ‘exorbitant’.
article_snippet.sent: Yesterday's Daily Mail added: ‘Investment is urgently needed on the front line where there is a desperate shortage of nurses [and] patients waiting for hours in A&E … when the NHS is under such huge financial pressure, this type of spending on huge salaries is unacceptable.
article_snippet.sent: It follows revelations in ThursdayYesterday's Daily Mail that millions of pounds was being wasted on NHS prescriptions for suncream and toothpaste.
article_snippet.sent: Yesterday, Yesterday's Daily Mail also exposed a £2,700 charge for cataract surgery at some hospitals – treble the cost to the health service – raising suspicions that patients are being ripped off.
article_snippet.sent: There is something strange going on when the NHS NHS will pay for gastric bands, suncream and hangover tablets
article_snippet.sent: It is outrageous that the salaries have been hidden from the people who pay the salaries … Taxpayers expect the money Taxpayers put in to the NHS to be spent on patients, not on bumper pay packets.
article_snippet.sent: But patients are still struggling to get an appointment.
article_snippet.sent: But Tory Charlotte Leslie, who sat on the health select committee of MPs, said: ‘Most people will be absolutely stunned individual clinicians are getting such astronomical salaries on NHS.