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PCT managers' huge salaries revealed
04 Dec 09
PCT managers are being paid staggering sums of up to £370,000 a year, according to a study out today.
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 PCT, 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.
His pay pipped at the line that of the man in charge of infrastructure for the UK’s railways and Olympics chief Sebastian Coe, and leaves the likes of the Governor of the Bank of England and Prime Minister Gordon Brown trailing in his wake.
However, 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 study comes just two weeks after a Pulse investigation revealed PCTs had sanctioned massive increases in management salary costs, with spending soaring by a quarter in just the past two years, while the NHS faces huge cuts.
Our investigation showed many trusts project rises in management costs of 60% or more over the two-year period, with costs at one trust rising by more than 100%.
The new report includes in its rich list Mark Britnell, former director of commissioning and system management of the Department of Health. 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.
The report comes with the Government, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats all calling for massive cuts in PCT management spending.
Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, said: ‘With 806 public sector employees taking home more than £180m a year between them, it is clear that even in these difficult times, profligacy at the top of the public sector lives on.’
Readers' comments
Is this the same management workforce that the Select Committee of MPs reported last year as not being up to scratch? Sounds like the new 'banking' sector !
Astounding! Goes to show that if you allow people to look after their own rate of pay greed wins.
Ah so is this why there is such a long waiting list for insulin pumps? PCTs have no funds due to paying such high wages. At least we now know where the PCTs' priorities are. In case anyone was wondering it obviously is not patient care.
Salary numbers grab headlines but are very misleading. Read today's FT for real salary excesses in the financial sector. If you have ever taken the trouble to find out what some of the senior management cadre of the NHS have to do for a living, it is highly educational and frankly a rude awakening. I wouldn't begrude them a penny of what they are paid - I think it is too little given the breadth and depth of the remit they have to fulfil. If the best professionals were able to function at their level, the whole NHS would a much better place to work in.
There are GPs with lists of 5600 plus, single-handed and PMS funded who are being plied with more than what the president of the US earns! Approx 500,000 p/a min not counting the QOF payments and OTHER incentives,and private earnings (insurance work/reports etc)! They blackmail the PCT and the managers shake in their boots. Why crib? Even Gordon Brown does not earn more in terms of money but I am sure he sure makes up for it in hate mail. The profession chose it with no mean help from Tories and now the chicken are coming home to roost! This is the verdict of the MARKET!
If PCT is in the black than the managers probably deserve such salaries. But if they are in red they should take a cut in their high salary.
Professor Salman Al Rawaf is a public health expert and adviser to the WHO. He as other consultants in NHS would deserve the promotion as in Clinical Excellence Awards. Some GPs earn more than £350 grand - some of them without even doing any clinical work! Yesterday's newspapers revealed 5,000 bankers each earned £1 Million in bonuses! All that from taxpayers' money as the bailout for bankrupt banks in the UK reached £850 billion!!
PCT's are not fit for purpose. The vast majority are very poorly managed with a ridiculous bias to any ephemeral political need. The NHS would function far better and cheaper with the immediate abolition of the PCTs. Many of us do not object to high incomes for anyone. It is the quality and outcome that is important, rather than political subservience...
We must be careful before we start piling on the accusations - remember how misleadingly GPs profits were quoted? Let's get the facts right before we start criticising- if we do, it will be further leverage to bring GP earnings down.