More NHS  staff face axe in bid to cut costs

YORKSHIRE’S 15 primary care trusts and the regional health authority are due to be abolished in March.

By The Newsroom

Published 27th Oct 2012, 07:00 BST

Figures show the cost of departures in the sector was £13.1m in 2011-12, half the £26.1m paid out the previous year.

A total of 271 staff received exit deals at an average cost of £48,200. Some 706 staff were axed in 2010-11 at an average cost of £36,900.

Four executives received pay-outs worth more than £200,000.

The highest award went to an unnamed manager at NHS Yorkshire and Humber who was handed £326,000.

The chief operating officer at NHS Barnsley, Steve Wainwright, received £321,000, while another unnamed official at the PCT was given £210,000.

Simon Kirk, director of strategy and transition at NHS Sheffield, received £231,000 on his departure.