PCT managers are being paid staggering sums of up to £370,000 a year, according to a study.
A report compiled by the Taxpayers’ Alliance has found at least 350 NHS executives in hospitals and PCTs were paid more than £150,000 last year.
But it also reveals a string of executives earn sums which dwarf that, and others who have received huge increases in pay.
Professor Salman Rawaf, recently retired director of public health at Wandsworth Primary Care Trust, tops the pile among health managers, earning £370,550 last year, which according to the report is an increase of almost 100% from the previous year.
The Prime Minister Gordon Brown trailed in 324th place in the pay ranking. Caroline Taylor, chief executive of Croydon PCT, saw her pay go up by more than 185% to £250,000 and Sue Assar, interim chief executive of Luton PCT, saw her earnings rise by 288% to £242,500.
The new report includes in its rich list former director of commissioning and system management of the Department of Health, Mark Britnell. Mr Britnell, who has since joined consultants KPMG, received a 15.4% hike in his final year, to more than £260,000.
Meanwhile the Department’s director general of workforce, Clare Chapman, was given more than a 10% rise to £267,000.
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