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NHS boss received nearly £400,000 'redundancy' pay-off when she retired
Mary Morgan was handed a £378,000 payment "under contractual redundancy terms" when she retired from a senior role in Scotland's NHS earlier this year
An NHS executive has received a near £400,000 redundancy pay-off after retiring from a health board, new figures show.
Following a 44-year career in the health service, Mary Morgan retired as chief executive of NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) in May.
But it has now been revealed Morgan received a £378,000 payment "under contractual redundancy terms" as part of an exit that came after NHS NSS was merged into a new quango called Public Services Delivery (PSD) Scotland in April.
A PSD Scotland spokesperson said Morgan retired after an "exceptional career" and all payments were in accordance with the terms and conditions of her employment.
The payment comes ahead of a planned major overhaul of Scotland's NHS which could see the number of health boards cut dramatically.
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PSD Scotland started operating in in April, external and was set up to drive changes across the health and care system, and the wider public sector.
It replaced both NHS NSS and another quango called NHS Education for Scotland, whose chief executive Prof Karen Reid is now in charge of PSD Scotland.