Pay-offs for 120 senior managers has cost taxpayers more than £8million. The pay-offs were the result of an NHS merger that combined seven primary care trusts. According to officials, the funds could have paid for 1,091 heart bypasses, or 1,097 hip replacements, or 1,137 knee replacements, or 7,765 varicose vein procedures.
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Health chief pay-offs in UK's NHS merger costs taxpayers