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NHS chiefs withhold pay data; Treasury reporting guidelines have been widely ignored.

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AuthorParry, Charlotte
PositionExecutive Reward - National Health Service

A large number of top managers in the National Health Service, including 50 chief executives, have refused to disclose their salaries and pensions in the latest set of health authority accounts.

In spite of advice from the Treasury to increase the level of detail disclosed in these accounts, they have exercised their rights under the Data Protection Act 1998 to withhold the information. Sir Nigel Crisp, chief executive of the NHS, who has disclosed his salary of nearly 170,000 [pounds sterling], is to write to all health service trusts and strongly encourage senior managers to disclose their remuneration in the 2002-03 accounts, which will be published in September.

One explanation for this widespread reticence could be the size of NHS chief executives' paycheques: research published last month by Income Data Services revealed that almost a quarter of trust chiefs had enjoyed pay rises in excess of 20 per cent last year and half had received a 10 per cent hike. One-third of them had earned more than 100,000 [pounds sterling] in the year ending March 2002.

Their refusal to disclose their salaries flies in the face of private-sector best practice. Companies have been wary of proposing ambitious...

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