{"id":793,"date":"2016-07-05T10:17:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T09:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/?p=793"},"modified":"2016-07-05T10:17:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T09:17:59","slug":"nhs-rehiring-staff-who-have-received-redundancy-payout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/nhs-rehiring-staff-who-have-received-redundancy-payout\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS Rehiring Staff Who Have Received Redundancy Payout"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NHS has rehired six managers, despite each of them already having received a redundancy payout totalling almost \u00a31million. <\/span><\/p>\n

The staff were laid off by the East of England Ambulance Service as part of a \u00a310million cost-cutting exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n

Each was given a redundancy payout, the cost of which amounted to \u00a3992,984. <\/span><\/p>\n

The same ambulance service later rehired the same employees, and is now facing questions as to why the staff were not just deployed in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\n

The NHS has previously been accused of having a \u201crevolving doors\u201d policy, where managers receive a redundancy package, only to walk straight back into a new job.<\/span><\/p>\n

The newspaper The Times <\/i>estimates that at least \u00a390million was wasted on rehiring redundant employees during the coalition government\u2019s health reforms. <\/span><\/p>\n

Norman Lamb, a former health minister, said: \u201cThis is crying out for reform. There needs to be some kind of rule saying when you leave with a substantial payment then return, that payment should be returned.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Expert legal advice<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

If you would like to talk to a solicitor about pursuing a medical negligence claim, please contact us at Glynns Solicitors. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NHS has rehired six managers, despite each of them already having received a redundancy payout totalling almost \u00a31million. The staff were laid off by the East of England Ambulance Service as part of a \u00a310million cost-cutting exercise. Each was given a redundancy payout, the cost of which amounted to \u00a3992,984. The same ambulance service […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[882,292,223,880,881],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-east-of-england-ambulance-service","tag-nhs-financial-crisis","tag-nhs-redundancy-package","tag-nhs-revolving-doors","tag-revolving-doors-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glynns.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}