Don't miss our must-read newsletter Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailA hospital boss who quit her failing NHS trust complaining “life’s too short” was handed a payoff worth £240,000. Chief executive Siobhan McArdle told her 9,000 staff she was leaving because she could not face making more cuts to key NHS services. Her departure from South Tees NHS Foundation Trust came just weeks after a critical inspection found senior executives were out of touch with problems facing frontline workers. Unite regional officer Neil Howells said: “The eye-watering payoff will cause revulsion for those NHS staff, many lowly paid, who have put their lives on the line combating Covid-19. “It’s not as if South Tees NHS Foundation Trust were flourishing under her leadership.

Source: Daily Mirror September 26, 2020 19:13 UTC