article_snippet: Dr Angela Bhan is one of around 70 executives earning more than the recommended £125,000.
article_snippet: Dr Angela Bhan takes home £175,000 .
article_snippet: NHS bosses are awarding NHS bosses six-figure salaries far in excess of the pay NHS bosses are entitled to, it emerged last night.
article_snippet: Some 70 executives of new regional bodies earn more than the £125,000 maximum recommended by NHS.
article_snippet: Twenty of NHS bosses, including nine specialist doctors and GPs, earn more than the £142,000 paid to the Prime Minister.
article_snippet: One took home £280,000 last year, although this included the fees of the recruitment agency that headhunted him.
article_snippet: the huge salaries were uncovered by e-reward, an online pay research service, which analysed the pay of more than 2,500 managers at the 211 clinical commissioning groups in England.
article_snippet: E-reward said 56 per cent of the 225 top executives – chief officers and chief finance officers – were paying the 225 top executives – chief officers and chief finance officers more than that recommended by NHS England, which runs the Health Service.
article_snippet: The approved salary range is £95,000 to £125,000 a year, depending on the size of the clinical commissioning group.
article_snippet: The biggest was paid to Martin Sheldon, chief financial officer for Redbridge CCG in Essex, at £280,000, including the cost of his recruitment.
article_snippet: Dr Angela Bhan, chief executive of Bromley CCG in Kent and a doctor specialising in public health, earns £175,000.
article_snippet: The average was £43,000, although some received more than £500,000.
article_snippet: Steve Glenn, head of executive remuneration research at e-reward, said bosses were paid a lot to ensure bosses did not take lucrative private-sector jobs.
article_snippet: Steve Glenn, head of executive remuneration research at e-reward added: ‘There is already quite a bit of activity in the labour market for CCG executives, even though it is only a couple of years since only a couple of years establishment.
highlights_snippet: One executive took home £280,000 last year - double the Prime Minister .
  
highlights_snippet: Some 70 other executives earn more than the £125,000 recommended cap .
  