Ten senior NHS managers shared over £300,000 in pay increases without even changing jobs, following David Cameron’s NHS re-organisation a year ago this week.

Department of Health directors kept identical posts when the NHS re-organisation came into force last April, but the rises came with fresh contracts from NHS England – the new quango responsible for large numbers of senior staff previously employed by the Department.

Whilst nurses and midwives receive real terms cuts to their salary, Dr Rashmi Shukla received a pay rise of £75,000 – taking his salary to at least £165,000 – and John Holden received an extra £40,000, a 50% salary increase, new figures reveal.

Others received rises in the region of £30,000 for the same work.

Jo-Anne Wass received an increase of £15,000 to take her salary to £155,000 this year. However, Wass left her new employer - NHS England - last month, with an exit package worth two years of her new salary.

The increases were disclosed to Labour in a series of Parliamentary Questions in recent weeks.

The figures come days after the Department of Health was forced to admit that 3,950 NHS managers had received redundancy payments in last year’s re-organisation, only to return to work in new NHS organisations. In total, 2,300 NHS managers received six-figure pay-offs, with 330 handed exit packages over £200,000.

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

“The scandalous waste caused by David Cameron’s NHS re-organisation gets worse the more we find out about it.

“Nurses and midwives who have been told that they will not receive even a 1 per cent pay increase this year will find these revelations utterly galling.

“It seems people at the top have done very nicely out of Mr Cameron’s re-organisation but those at the bottom are told there’s no money left. No wonder NHS staff morale has hit rock bottom under this Government.

“There could be no clearer illustration of an out-of-touch Prime Minister once again standing up for the wrong people with his priorities completely wrong.

“People who can’t get a GP appointment or who have been denied an operation will ask why this Prime Minister can’t find the money to help them but can find tens of thousands of pounds extra for already well-paid people still doing the same job.”