At least £1.4 billion from the NHS budget was spent on redundancies since the coalition came to power, according to the Labour Party.
The figures are based on NHS England’s accounts for 2012/13, which were released last week.
Andy Burnham, shadow health secretary said it amounts to “waste on a colossal scale”.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, he said that the redundancies were the result of an NHS restructuring that “no-one wanted and nobody voted for”.
At least £1.4 billion from the NHS budget was spent on redundancies since the coalition came to power, according to the Labour Party.
The figures are based on NHS England’s accounts for 2012/13, which were released last week.
Andy Burnham, shadow health secretary said it amounts to “waste on a colossal scale”.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, he said that the redundancies were the result of an NHS restructuring that “no-one wanted and nobody voted for”.
However, care and support minister Norman Lamb said the government was slimming down the “over-bloated bureaucracy Labour created”.
Burnham said the NHS' accounts showed there had been a total of 32,000 pay-offs since the coalition government was formed in 2010.
The latest figures showed more than 950 health workers received six-figure redundancy packages last year, up from around 620 in 2011-12, he added.
