It has almost doubled in the last year - from 2,200 managers - Ministerial responses to Parliamentary Questions have revealed.

Non-clinical NHS staff made redundant in the reorganisation received average pay-offs of £43,000 and 2,300 received packages worth six figures.

Andy Burnham MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, said:

“It will be utterly galling for nurses who’ve just had a pay cut from David Cameron to see he’s been handing out cheques like confetti to people who have now been rehired. On his watch, we have seen pay-offs for managers and pay cuts for nurses.

“Cameron’s top-down re-organisation has wasted £3 billion and left the NHS in a weak financial position. Nurses are paying the price for his mismanagement of the NHS.

“It’s clear that people who received pay-offs are now coming back to the NHS in ever greater numbers. We need to know whether the Prime Minister has honoured his promise to recover redundancy payments from people who have been re-employed by his new organisations.

“The sickening scale of the waste caused by Cameron’s reorganisation is finally becoming clear. It will infuriate people who can’t get a GP appointment or nurses who are struggling to pay the bills.”

See: http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2014-03-12a.190996.h&s=speaker%3A24881#g190996.q0