Three London hospital chiefs earn salaries of £260,000 plus

12 April 2012

Bosses at three London hospital trusts are the highest paid NHS managers in the country with salaries of at least £260,000, figures reveal today.

Sir Ron Kerr, chief executive of Guy's and St Thomas', was the highest earner with £274,000.

Sir Robert Naylor, who runs University College London Hospitals where 360 posts are being cut, is second with a £262,500 pay packet.

Peter Morris at Barts and the London Trust, who earns £260,000, came third. His trust is to axe 635 positions.

The Income Data Services report also showed that average salaries for chief executives have soared by five per cent in the last year, nearly twice the pay rise given to nurses and significantly higher than the Department of Health's pay guidance rise of 1.5 per cent.

The increases have been handed out despite tens of thousands of doctors, nurses and midwives facing redundancy in a £20 billion cost-cutting exercise.

Steve Tatton, of IDS, said: "The Government has stressed the importance of senior staff in the public sector showing leadership in pay restraint. With salary rises at these levels, such restraint does not seem to have been a feature of boardroom pay deliberations."

NHS chiefs today called on Nick Clegg to outline his plans for changing the NHS Bill after he vowed to block the reforms. The Royal College of Nursing's Peter Carter said: "He says there must be changes, so we'll be getting in touch to see what these are."

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