Row over pay-off for NHS scandal hospital boss

By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor Published: 7:25AM GMT twenty-five February 2010

Debating the ban commentary of the Francis exploration in to failures at the certitude in the House of Commons, Norman Lamb, health orator for the Liberal Democrats pronounced former arch comparison manager Martin Yeates left the sanatorium with a �400,000 pay-off.

Andy Burnham, health cabinet member pronounced the figure was not scold and that Mr Yeates perceived usually his notice period.

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Mr Burnham went on to contend it was unsuitable for NHS mangers to be obliged for vital failings at one organization and afterwards to simply get an additional pursuit elsewhere in the NHS.

Martin Yeates, who stepped down from Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust last Mar and quiescent in May, did not attend any hearings or suggest statements to the inquiry.

It is not transparent if Mr Yeates is now operative as he did not give justification to the Francis exploration due to ill health.

In papers granted to the inquiry, Mr Yeates pronounced he "had been allocated to a unwell organization not in in any governance arrangements and pang from bad leadership."

During his time as arch comparison manager Mr Yeates believed "the organization has been incited around to one with a tolerable future, embedding strong governance arrangements and mending peculiarity and standards of care," the inform said.

Mr Francis concluded: "Whatever Mr Yeates might have believed had been completed by the time of his departure, concerns about patients" practice and of staff about governance and staffing issues had not been resolved in reality."

The inform pronounced Mr Yeates had not creatively dictated to resign.

It minute how the trust"s house had deliberate disciplinary movement opposite Mr Yeates following the Healthcare Commission"s inform but motionless it would suggest improved "value for money" to come to a negotiated settlement.

Liberal Democrat health orator Norman Lamb told MPs currently that Mr Yeates perceived a �400,000 pay-off.

Health Secretary Andy Burnham doubtful that figure, observant he accepted Mr Yeates perceived his notice duration "and no some-more than his contractual entitlement".

A investigate commissioned in to Mr Yeates" opening resolved "there was a box to answer in disciplinary record for potentially critical failings in leadership", the exploration inform said.

"Faced with this report, the house or some-more pertinently the Remuneration and Terms of Service Committee had to confirm either to follow the proof of the inform and begin disciplinary record opposite Mr Yeates or to find a negotiated departure.

"They chose the latter course, carrying perceived authorised advice."

In May, Mr Yeates wrote a minute tendering his abdication with outcome from Jun 14, definition that his last day of practice (taking comment of his notice period) was to be Dec 14.

The former authority of the trust, Toni Brisby, quiescent in Mar last year after the comparison manager chair of Monitor told her he dictated to make use of his orthodox powers to remove her, the inform went on.

"She pronounced that she perceived no stop remuneration of any kind, and that there was no right to any."

Antony Sumara, new arch comparison manager of Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, said: "Chair Toni Brisby did not embrace any remuneration from the day that she resigned.

"Chief comparison manager Martin Yeates was entitled to 6 months" income on notice of resignation, that is in line with top-level NHS comparison managers."