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TaxPayers’ Alliance reveals the pay of the chief executives at the ten worst performing trusts by waiting times.
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Interim chief executive of Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Samantha Prince received a salary of £142,500 and total remuneration of £147,500 in 2023-24. The trust has the worst average waiting time in the country at 38.5 weeks. The highest paid of the ten trusts by salary in 2023-24 was Mark Cubbon at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, who received £292,500 in both salary and remuneration.
- TaxPayers’ Alliance welcomes proposals from the Health Secretary and calls on him to place bosses of worst performing trusts “on notice.”
The TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) has welcomed Wes Streeting’s proposals to reform the NHS and has revealed the pay of the chief executives at the ten worst performing NHS Trusts by waiting lists. This comes after the Health Secretary said in a speech to the NHS Providers’ conference that “there will be no more rewards for failure” and that “where leadership is found lacking, it will be removed.”
The chief executive of the worst performing NHS trust by waiting list is Samantha Prince at Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust, who received £142,500 in salary and £147,500 in total remuneration in 2023-24. However, they were in the post on an interim basis and have since been replaced as chief executive. The chief executive of the worst performing trust who is in post on a permanent contract is Joseph Harrison at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. He received a salary of £112,500 in 2023-24 and total remuneration of £202,500. This is the third worst performing trust, with the second worst performing trust also having an interim chief executive.
The highest paid chief executive of the ten worst performing NHS trusts by waiting list was Mark Cubbon at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, who received £292,500 in both salary and total remuneration in 2023-24. The chief executive with the highest total remuneration was Philippa Nightingale, of London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, who received £422,500 in 2023-24.
The total cost of these ten chief executives to taxpayers was £1,975,000 in salary and £2,410,000 in total remuneration.
The TPA is calling on the Health Secretary to put the ten chief executives of the worst performing trusts on notice as he attempts to improve NHS performance.
Responding to Wes Streeting’s speech on NHS reform, John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said:
“Streeting has once again marked himself out as one of the sole Labour ministers who seems to genuinely care about delivering for taxpayers and reforming a frontline public service.
“However, with the chancellor handing him a massive pot of cash in the budget, the pressure on him to deliver rapid results is absolutely enormous.
“The health secretary should put the bosses at the worst performing trusts on notice and send a serious signal to complacent managers across the service that failure won’t be tolerated.”
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Founded in 2004 by Matthew Elliott and Andrew Allum, the TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) campaigns to reform taxes and public services, cut waste and speak up for British taxpayers. Find out more at www.taxpayersalliance.com.
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TaxPayers' Alliance's research council.
- Methodology: the measure for waiting lists is based on average time spent on waiting lists, not the total number as this would skew the results based on the size of the trust.