article_snippet.sent: Jeremy Hunt comments led a storm of reaction from all political parties, as well as health experts and medical professionals.
article_snippet.sent: the Mail yesterday revealed how hospital bosses had taken £35million in pay rises during the worst funding crisis in a generation.
article_snippet.sent: And Labour health spokesman Andy Burnham said the astonishing pay rises should be ‘clawed back’, adding:
article_snippet.sent: It cannot be right at a time when NHS staff have been asked to accept years of [pay] freezes to see this level of excess at the top.
article_snippet.sent: The extraordinary pay deals have also been condemned by the Royal College of Nursing, which branded them
article_snippet.sent: ‘shocking’, while health experts including the Royal College of Physicians and government health adviser Sir Brian Jarman demanded a review.
article_snippet.sent: Roger Goss, of Patient Concern, said the situation was ‘ludicrous’, adding: ‘There is no way of justifying it.