One-in-5 redundant NHS workers rehired

Of individuals, three,261 of have since been rehired by the NHS – the huge bulk in the previous twelve months, MPs heard.

They include 403 staff who had been back working for the wellness support inside of four weeks of taking redundancy, the disclosures reveal.

Barbara Keeley, Labour MP, accused ministers and overall health officials of “appallingly negative organizing .. it just smacks of carelessness with public cash.”

“This is the use of public cash spend offs and redundancies, folks taking pensions from the public purse and then becoming re-employed successfully currently being paid twice,” she explained.

The adjustments introduced in April have noticed 150 major care trusts, run by managers, replaced with 211 clinical commissioning groups, led by loved ones doctors.

David Nicholson, NHS chief executive, stated he did not have the power to quit NHS bodies from re-using these who had been made redundant, but mentioned his own organisation NHS England, had taken steps not to re-employ people who had been offered shell out-offs.

He explained the NHS had invested far less than it had anticipated on redundancies, with all around £600 million to £700 million spent, instead of a forecast £1.5bn.

Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, stated: “The NHS is 1.three million men and women powerful and successive governments – not just this government have concluded that it isn’t going to operate to run it as a single construction with everybody reporting to the secretary of state.”

He mentioned methods had been taken to claw back pay in future from individuals who went on to perform for Government companies soon after acquiring redundancy offers.

Karen Straughair, 50, who was chief executive of NHS South of Tyne and Put on, was paid £605,000 when the believe in was abolished in March.

Her husband Chris Reed, 57, who was chief executive of NHS North of Tyne, also acquired a redundancy payout of £345,000 when his organisation was abolished in the exact same month.

Each then went on to operate for numerous months for Leeds Educating Hospitals NHS Trust in June, where he took the position of interim chief executive and she was employed as the recovery director.

Previously launched figures analysing 10,000 of the redundancies disclose that 330 of the personnel obtained exit packages of £200,000 or more, although 513 were paid in between £150,000 and £200,000 and one,456 have been offered in between £100,000 and £150,000 in redundancy payments.

Mr Hunt was also questioned by MPs about plans for next year’s spend deal for NHS workers.

He said that a one per cent rise for workers would be unaffordable – and would equate to an extra ten,000 frontline posts – if action was not taken to phase out a system of “incremental” pay rises which most staff receive in addition.

He said: “The commitment we made for a 1 per cent rise was not regardless of any other increments that you might get in the pay packet … that can mean an automated rise of as much as 6 or seven per cent.”

One-in-5 redundant NHS workers rehired