The NHS has rehired six managers, despite each of them already having received a redundancy payout totalling almost £1million.
The staff were laid off by the East of England Ambulance Service as part of a £10million cost-cutting exercise.
Each was given a redundancy payout, the cost of which amounted to £992,984.
The same ambulance service later rehired the same employees, and is now facing questions as to why the staff were not just deployed in the first place.
The NHS has previously been accused of having a “revolving doors” policy, where managers receive a redundancy package, only to walk straight back into a new job.
The newspaper The Times estimates that at least £90million was wasted on rehiring redundant employees during the coalition government’s health reforms.
Norman Lamb, a former health minister, said: “This is crying out for reform. There needs to be some kind of rule saying when you leave with a substantial payment then return, that payment should be returned.”
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