£51m in pension pots built up by NHS top brass

Seanín Graham

GOLD-PLATED pension pots worth £51 million have been amassed by health service bosses in Northern Ireland as they preside over the worst waiting list crisis in the entire NHS. An investigation by The Irish News has found that three of the...

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