£1.1 million redundancy for health managers

MORE than £1.1 million has been paid out in redundancy costs to managers at Oldham’s health trust, figures have revealed.

Forty staff were given exit packages totalling £1.193 million last year, including six members of staff handed more than £40,000.

It means the average pay-out to the other staff was about £30,000.

Across England, the redundancy bill in 2010-11 reached £168 million.

Earlier this week, Labour tried to prevent the Health Bill being passed, saying MPs could not consider planned NHS changes for the final time before an assessment of the potential risks to the health service is published.



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