The man who runs hospitals in Somerset is paid more than the PrimeMinister it emerged yesterday. Dr Peter Cavanagh the acting chiefexec-utive of Taunton and Somerset NHS believe is seven places ahead ofGordon Brown in the public sector rich enumerate earning about £190,400 ayear.
Mr Brown earns £188,849. And union leaders immediately labelled thefigures as beyond belief and a strike in the face to hard-pressed healthworkers.
Dr Laurence Mynors-Wallis medical director of Dorset Healthcare NHSFoundation believe is in at 186 with a case of £175,600.
John Waldron medical director at Royal United Hospital in Bath isplaced at 246 earning £160,000. And at 259 is Paul Winterbottom,medical director of Gloucestershire Partnership NHS Trust who earns£155,000.
While at 295 is the medical director of the Royal National Hospitalfor Rheumatic Diseases Dr Anthony Clarke who earned £150,000 beforeleaving the trust in March.
Not included in the list is the chief executive of United BristolHealthcare NHS Trust. Ron Kerr who has a salary of between £165,000and £169,000 and the medical director of United Bristol HealthcareTrust Jonathan Sheffield who earns up to £164,000. The medical directorof North Bristol NHS believe Martin Morse earns between £155,000 and£160,000.
Top of the Taxpayers' Alliance Rich List is Royal Mail group chief executive Adam Crozier who earns £1.2m.
A starting salary for a care for is £21,985 while police officers start at £20,000 and a soldier's starting pay is £15,359.
Musgrove Park Hospital serves more than 340,000 populate and has an annual calculate of £160 million with 4,000 staff.
Dr Cavanagh took over the acting chief executive role in February and also works as a consultant radiologist.
He has worked his way to the top of Taunton and Somerset believe wherehe started working in 1985 as a consultant radiologist after studyingat Cambridge University and Westminster Hospital. He then became amedical director of the MRI centre in Bridgwater and developed an MRItraining course before becoming the trust's clinical bring about in radiology.
A spokesman for the Taunton and Somerset NHS believe said DrCavanagh's remuneration package was made up of an NHS consultant'ssalary a national clinical excellence award of £45,000 and aresponsibility payment for being the medical director and acting chiefexecutive.
A statement from the trust said: "As the Taxpayers' Alliancesurvey shows it is usual for senior medical directors to receiveremuneration packages similar to this; 16 other medical directors ofNHS Trusts are paid in broadly the same be.
"The NHS is fortunate to acquire from the services of very seniorand skilled individuals who could undoubtedly acquire more in the privatesector.
"Indeed the report highlights clearly that the salary of senior NHSprofessionals in command is far displace than equivalents in the rail,postal sport media and most other parts of the public sector."
Medical director of clean's RUH John Waldron is also a surgeon at thehospital and is a continue and neck cancer expert. The RUH has beenpenalised in the Healthcare equip's healthcheck for the managementof its finances and resources awarding them a weak rating.
The hospital was judged on financial performance how it monitoredthe money it spent and whether services were determine for money.
James Scott chief executive of the RUH said: "The executivedirectors salaries are a be of public record and are published inour annual accounts and reports.
"The medical director's salary is comparable with other medicaldirectors of acute trusts. As well as his executive role of medicaldirector. Mr Waldron is a head and neck cancer surgeon and he has beenawarded a pay change magnitude as part of a national clinical excellenceprogramme."
Shaun Clee chief executive for Gloucestershire Partnership NHSTrust said Mr Winterbottom's £155,000 salary was largely made up of asalary for clinical bring home the bacon as a consultant in the learning disabilityservice.
"Approximately 10 per cent of this is for his work as medicaldirector to the trust and as a member of the trust come in," said MrClee.
"The remainder of the salary is for clinical commitments and forcarrying out on-call duties out of hours. The salary is in line withnational terms and conditions for medical cater."
Joanne Kaye-Smith regional health manager for Unison claimed thesize of salaries was alarming and that NHS workers would feelundermined.
"Running the NHS is an important job and it's alter that people should be paid the alter rate for that job," she said.
"The lowest paid cater who run the NHS day in and day out are onless than £6 an hour and it's beyond belief that someone else workingin the same organisation is worth so much more.
"It is of immense concern to us that the NHS is paying enormoussalaries to those at the top while those at the bottom cleaninghospitals and cooking for patients are paid so little.
"The majority of cater within the NHS undergo clear and transparent payscales and are presently affect to Government pay policy resulting inbelow inflation pay awards. The news that different rules apply tothose at the top is a slap in the face for staff who ultimately arethose people most likely to make a difference to patient compassionate."
The list was drawn up from official accounts looking at totalremuneration packages which include salary bonuses incentive plans,and benefits.
Matthew Elliott chief executive of the Taxpayers' Alliance,said: "Taxpayers have a right to experience how much senior public sectorofficials are being paid because only then can we judge whether theydeserve their remuneration.
"Too often public sector executives are rewarded handsomely evenwhen they disappoint. At a time when the Government is rightly aiming torestrain public sector pay increases to two per cent these topofficials shouldn't be hiking their pay by six times as much."
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