Trust’s £360k overtime bill for handful of staff ‘not sustainable’

By Matt Discombe2026-05-11T04:55:00

A trust has said it paid £358,000 in overtime to just eight band 6 and 7 staff members to keep its pathology service running amid multiple strikes last year, in an arrangement the CEO warned was “not sustainable”.

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