NHS manager in line for £1 million pay out

A senior NHS executive is in line to receive a £1 million lump sum when his job disappears as part of reforms to the health service. 

The NHS has now paid out almost £1bn in redundancy packages under the Coalition's restructuring of the health service, new figures show. 

The payments so far include six figure sums for more than 1,300 senior managers, with 173 officials receiving at least £200,000 after their positions were axed.

Many of the biggest payouts have yet to come. 

Health authority chief executives are in line to walk away with payments of as much as £1 million within months, if they do not take a job in the new structures, the Sunday Telegraph can disclose.