Passengers were left stranded at Manchester Airport for hours after numerous flight delays this morning (February 9).
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The former chief executive of Greater Manchester’s failing mental health trust was still being paid his £196,000 CEO salary for months after resigning and finishing his duties at the helm. Over the four-month period, the incoming chief executive officer was also being paid the same six-figure salary by the trust, the Manchester Evening News can exclusively reveal.
Senior NHS sources have shared their outrage that the trust was paying the former CEO the hefty sum while presiding over the organisation’s multiple failings – and long after his chief executive responsibilities ended. Sources have also railed against the trust for paying two CEO salaries when the finances of Greater Manchester’s NHS are floundering, and the trust itself has also racked up almost £2m of debt this financial year so far.
Former Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Trust (GMMH) boss Neil Thwaite announced his resignation in April 2023. It followed shocking revelations that patients were being abused at a care facility, ‘exposed’ in disturbing footage captured in a BBC Panorama programme in September 2022.
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Staff who were unequipped to be in senior management, a ‘combative management’ style, and a trust ‘believing its own propaganda’ were listed among reasons for shocking staff behaviour towards patients at the Edenfield Centre. Young people dying on mental health wards, followed by admissions medical notes were doctored; staff in racism rows; and more than half of Manchester mental health patients not being read their rights are among the other headlines revealed by the M.E.N. about the troubled trust over the last year.
Neil Thwaite remained in post as CEO until the
Passengers were left stranded at Manchester Airport for hours after numerous flight delays this morning (February 9).
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