Taxpayers have forked out at least £4.95 million in golden goodbyes for senior civil servants in the NHS. According to health minister Karin Smyth, in the year 2024-25 there were 33 exit payment cases disclosed by integrated care boards which were of a value of £150,001 or more. Eye-watering…
For context, there are currently 42 NHS Integrated Care Boards responsible for carving up NHS budgets and commissioning services for local areas. Meanwhile, as of November last year, NHS England has not opened a voluntary redundancy scheme and staffing costs have actually gone up since Starmer promised to ‘abolish’ the quango last March. The Hippocratic Oath doesn’t apply to quangos you’ve promised to abolish, by the way…
Asked about warnings of a civil war in an interview with The House, Reform MP Danny Kruger said:
“Yeah. The only chance of unity for our country is Reform. If we don’t win, or if we win and then make a mess of it, I do fear for our country.”