article_snippet.sent: Sir David Nicholson has worked in NHS since 1977, the same year Sir David Nicholson joined the Communist party.
article_snippet.sent: After working in mental health for a decade, Sir David Nicholson rose through the ranks to become chief executive of several bodies including the Shropshire and Staffordshire Strategic Health Authority at the time of the care scandal in which up to 1,200 people died.
article_snippet.sent: In 2006 Sir David Nicholson became chief executive of the whole of the National Health Service, in charge of a £90billion budget and 1.3million staff.
article_snippet.sent: Sir David Nicholson claimed £50,000-a-year in expenses on top of a salary of Sir David Nicholson
article_snippet.sent: £211,000 salary, £20,000 bonus and around £47,000 of 'benefits in kind'.
article_snippet.sent: Sir David Nicholson insisted Sir David Nicholson had to travel by first-class to do Sir David Nicholson job, but refused to explain to MPs why Sir David Nicholson expense claims included 41 first-class trips to Birmingham, where Sir David Nicholson 35-year-old wife lives with MPs baby daughter.
article_snippet.sent: In a three-year period under Sir David Nicholson rule a total of £14.7 million was spent on almost 600 'compromise agreements' preventing ex-employees from speaking out.
article_snippet.sent: A year after Sir David Nicholson retirement Sir David Nicholson has re-emerged to warn of problems with NHS finances.