Time to sort out NHS pay scales
AS THE list of Accident and Emergency centres and other hospital unit closures continues to grow, it was revealed last week that 7,800 NHS staff are on annual salaries of £100,000 or more. Of that, nearly 3,000 take home more than the Prime Minister's £142,500 yearly wage.
While some are the clinicians who save our lives and those of whom we love, many are managers, accountants and administrators.
How can the highest paid chief executives, picking up £340,000 a year, be worth 16 times more than a ward nurse who gets a little more than £21,000?
The Government needs to be aware, as we see the NHS reel under budget restraints, that the area that really needs a large dollop of austerity measures is the bulging pay packets of managers, many of whom would seem to be doing a pretty shocking job and would struggle to organise a drink in a brewery.