Astonishing 500 health fat cats are on £100,000-plus

More than 500 health bureaucrats earn more than £100,000 a year, official figures have revealed.

This includes dozens who are actually paid more than Rishi Sunak, who takes home around £160,000 as Prime Minister.

Sir Chris Whitty, England’s chief medical officer, and Amanda Pritchard, boss of NHS England, are among the ‘fat cats’.

Salary figures were released as part of a drive for transparency to shed light on ‘waste and wakery’ in the health corridors of Whitehall and the NHS.

Steve Barclay ordered an audit of all poor health ministries when he originally took on the role of health minister over the summer.

Jobs have been cut in an effort to lower management wage bills.

At the same time, the NHS has asked for an additional £7bn to close funding gaps this winter.

Mr Barclay asked health authorities to publish ‘organograms’ outlining their team structures and salaries.

He said this would ‘promote transparency’, noting in one of his first speeches at the helm of the department that there are over 50,000 people who work for the NHS and do not provide direct patient care.

The NHS England chart shows 430 senior staff earning at least £100,000.

Of these, 122 will receive more than £150,000, according to pay cap data.

About 29 people have an annual salary of more than £175,000, while 13 earn more than £200,000.

Two people – NHS chief Amanda Pritchard and East England Regional Director Clare Panniker – are earning up to £260,000.

At NHS Digital, which provides information, data and IT systems to the health service, 16 senior and 49 junior staff earn more than £100,000.

The highest earners include interim CEO Simon Bolton (up to £205,000), executive director of platforms Stephen Koch (up to £165,000) and executive director of information management Jackie Gray (up to £155,000).

NHS Resolution, which helps the health service resolve disputes, will raise at least £100,000 for nine staff.

These include Helen Vernon, chief executive, who earns up to £165,000, along with Joanne Evans, director of finance and business planning (up to £125,000).

Meanwhile, the Department of Health has 53 staff on its payroll who are taking home a salary of more than £100,000.

This includes Britain’s chief medical officer Sir Chris, who earns between £205,000 and £210,000 — about 28 per cent more than the prime minister.

Professor Kevin Fenton, the regional director of the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities in London, earns up to £180,000 and Sir Chris Wormald, permanent secretary of the Department of Health, up to £175,000.

Health Education England, which oversees the education and training of NHS staff, is awarding more than £100,000 to six members of senior leadership.

dr. Navina Evans, the chief executive, earns around £165,000, while chief operating officer David Farrelly and director of strategy Jo Lenaghan earn around £135,000.

The organization chart also suggests there are 1,226 junior staff at Health Education England with annual salaries in excess of £100,000.

In total, there are 45 staff members who are thought to earn more than the Prime Minister.

The release of the staggering sums comes as the health service told ministers it will need an additional £7 billion next year to close a deficit it says has been fueled by rising inflation and wage increases from the government. staff.

This is after the NHS had already found efficiency savings worth billions of pounds, according to Ms Prichard.

Jim McConalogue, chief executive of think tank Civitas, said: The Telegraph“At a time when families are counting the pennies and being told they have to pay more tax on the NHS, it will feel like a slap in the face to hear that there are over 400 bureaucrats with six figure salaries at NHS HQ.

“If we are really told that the NHS is being protected from budget cuts to balance the books, then the NHS will have to look long and hard at top boss pay. That’s the least the public will expect.’

It’s because the health service is cutting up to 8,000 jobs — about 30 to 40 percent of its workforce — this fall in a bid to tackle bureaucracy.

The staff is expected to be made voluntary and a hiring freeze is in effect.

The move anticipates a merger of NHS England, NHS Digital and Health Education England in an effort to make the organizations more efficient.

The number of civil servants working for the health service and the Department of Health has doubled since the start of the pandemic, with the number of nurses increasing by just seven percent, according to a report by the think tank Policy Exchange.

A spokesperson for NHS England said: ‘The NHS is already one of the most efficient health services in the world – just 2 pence in every NHS pound is spent on administration – compared to triple that in France and more than double that in Germany – with the costs of NHS England and Improvement executive salaries have fallen by about a fifth since 2018.

“While this data includes key clinical functions such as medical and nursing directors, NHS England already has plans to reduce posts across the organization by as much as 40 per cent.”