Woke up this am and it was announced on the news how much the top civil servants earn. We had a quick look at those in the Department of Health. The spreadsheet with all this riveting information can be found on the Cabinet Office website or if you are too excited to wait it is here.
Now to your average Daily Mail reader and believer you will think most of these are not badly paid in contrast to your average GP’s £ 250,000 a year. Compare these figures below with the number of underpaid NHS managers:
David Nicholson NHS Chief Executive
£ 255,000 - £ 259,000
Claire Chapman Director General of Workforce
£ 220,000 - £ 224,999
Sir Liam Donaldson Chief Medical Officer
£ 205,000 – £ 209,999
Christine Connelly Chief Information Officer
£ 200,000 - £ 204,999
Gabriel Scally Regional Director of Public Health
£ 200,000 - £ 204,999
David Behan Director General of Social Care, Local Government and Carepartnerships (what a title anyone know what it means?)
£ 180,000 - £ 184,999
Duncan Selbie Chief Executive
£ 180,00o - £ 184,999
David Salibury Director of Immunisation
£ 175,000 - £ 179,999
Lindsey Davies Interim Regional Director of Public Health (you can even work out how much an interim is worth)
£ 165,000 - £ 169,999
Martin Bellamy ICT Director
£ 160,000 - £ 164,999
Sir Hugh Taylor Permanent Secretary DH
£ 155,000 - £ 159,999
It seems you get more for buggering up the health service and not seeing or treating patients than you do for seeing and treating patients. And we bet they can all be seen by any patient in the UK within 48 hours and are doing extended hours and weekends as well for the same salary.
Praise be to the Party for its new “transparency”. How long will this last we wonder?
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