Socialized medicine stories: NHS supervisors have a financial incentive to cut patient services

Called “payment by cuts” bonuses:

New pay structures for chief executives and senior managers earning £110,000 mean that their annual pay rises and performance bonuses will depend on their NHS organisations hitting financial goals.

But if they miss targets they will not receive a salary increase at all, prompting fears that managers will cut patient services to safeguard their earnings while making nurses and doctors redundant.

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