Paula Vasco-Knight was appointed CBE for “services to diversity” and had a salary of £170,000One of the most prominent female executives in the NHS has been given a suspended jail sentence for defrauding the health service of more than £11,000. Paula Vasco-Knight made the fraudulent payments to her husband while she was chief executive of a trust in south Devon. Vasco-Knight is the second chief executive of a south Devon health trust to be sentenced for fraud at the same court this week. On Monday Jon Andrewes, a former builder, was jailed for two years for falsely claiming to have two doctorates and an MBA in order to get the position. Vasco-Knight, who needed medical treatment after collapsing as she left Exeter crown court, had been the NHS’s spokeswoman on equality and diversity, a role for which she was…

Source: The Times March 10, 2017 17:01 UTC