£200,000 redundancy pay-out to NHS staff

Redundancy pay-outs to staff at Oldham’s health body as part of the controversial shake-up of the NHS have cost the taxpayer more than £233,000.

The money as paid to former employees of Oldham Primary Care Trust in 2011-12.

The PCTs are to be abolished in April, to be replaced by GP-led groups which will have massive NHS budgets to commission treatment and services.

Critics have already expressed concern that some of the staff laid off by the PCT will be rehired in the new organisations as doctors will not have the necessary management skills to commission the work.


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