article_snippet: MPs said the huge salaries were ‘shocking and obscene’ given the increasingly tight constraints on the NHS budget.
article_snippet: MPs said the huge salaries were ‘shocking and obscene’ given the increasingly tight constraints on the NHS budget (file image)
article_snippet: Figures published at the weekend showed NHS has spent £225million on the so-called revolving-door payoffs on 5,200 staff since 2013.
article_snippet: Tory MP Charlotte Leslie, who sits on the Commons Health Select Committee, said: ‘It is incredible that senior managers are getting paid this kind of money when NHS is struggling for funds to meet soaring demand.
article_snippet: Not only are they raking in obscene salaries, they are also unaccountable, with no regulatory body like doctors and nurses have.
article_snippet: Tory MP Charlotte Leslie said the salaries were 'obscene'
article_snippet: If executives think it is okay to accept this kind of pay, it suggests executives either don’t understand the financial pressures on NHS finances, or executives don’t care.
article_snippet: However, it is galling and disheartening for many frontline nursing staff, who have been dealing with the realities of austerity year on year, to see the disproportionate rewards being given to bosses.
article_snippet: Besides the disparity of this for hard-pressed staff enduring a pay squeeze, this is also strong evidence of the high cost of reorganising the NHS.
highlights_snippet: MPs said the salaries were 'shocking and obscene' given tight NHS cuts .