The £300k pension package
TRISH Armstrong-Child, another director of nursing, was granted a £405,000 package while working at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust last year.
This included £307,500 in pensionrelated benefits on top of her £95,000a-year salary.
She was handed the huge boost after being promoted to the board.
The glamorous nurse’s massive pay packet will raise eyebrows in Bolton – where she once claimed she would ‘restore confidence’ in the local hospital.
‘If you get the basics right, then everything else falls into place,’ said the boss, who turned 45 yesterday.
However, soon afterwards – in the year when she got her huge pay deal – Mrs Armstrong-Child was forced to defend the Royal Bolton hospital over a series of worrying ‘never events’, the name for serious failures that should never happen in the NHS.
The three events involved swabs being left inside women patients in the Maternity Unit – one of whom was pregnant.
Mrs Armstrong Child told a newspaper that her staff had had to be retrained to count swabs after the incidents, which were all ‘avoidable’ and had been taken ‘very seriously.’
She said at the time: ‘Clearly, these never events should not have happened.’
The trust last year reported a financial deficit of £5.6million.
Mrs Armstrong-Child lives in a red brick semi-detached house in Prescot, Merseyside.
Yesterday, Land Rover Discovery and Freelander 4x4s were parked outside the property.
A spokesman for Bolton NHS Foundation Trust said the figure of £307,000 in pension benefits for Trish ArmstrongChild was ‘a notional figure of pension growth’.
The spokesman added that the high figure was ‘a one-off spike’ because Mrs Armstrong-Child had become a director.