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The chairman of an East Yorkshire hospital trust which was put in special measures after a major national review of high mortality rates said it would have been a "grave mistake and false economy" not to boost the chief executive's salary by ?25,000.
Karen Jackson, who is in charge of Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, received the inflation-busting rise from ?145,000 to ?170,000 in April last year.
That figure makes her comfortably better paid than the Prime Minister, whose salary is ?142,500.
Last month Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced the trust, which serves a population of 358,000 people from three main sites in Grimsby, Goole and Scunthorpe, was one of 11 to be placed in special measures following the Keogh Review into high mortality rates.
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/regional/nhs-trust-defends-chief-s-pay-rise-1-5950952
Karen Jackson, who is in charge of Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, received the inflation-busting rise from ?145,000 to ?170,000 in April last year.
That figure makes her comfortably better paid than the Prime Minister, whose salary is ?142,500.
Last month Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced the trust, which serves a population of 358,000 people from three main sites in Grimsby, Goole and Scunthorpe, was one of 11 to be placed in special measures following the Keogh Review into high mortality rates.
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/regional/nhs-trust-defends-chief-s-pay-rise-1-5950952