Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: Incentives

(asked on 2nd June 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what (a) recent discussions he has had and (b) discussions he plans to have with Southend University Hospital about its policy on the payment of bonuses to senior managers; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 9th June 2015

No discussions are planned or have taken place between the Department’s Ministers and officials and Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust about its policy on the payment of bonuses to senior managers at Southend.

National Health Service trusts and NHS foundation trusts set rates of pay and terms of conditions for their chief executives and executive directors, including the payment of performance-related bonuses, on the advice of their own independent remuneration committees.

However on 2 June 2015 my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State wrote to the Chairs of all NHS trusts, foundation trusts and clinical commissioning groups strongly urging restraint over executive pay.

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