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. The payment comes ahead of a planned major overhaul of Scotland's NHS which could number of health boards cut dramatically. Swinney to cut number of health boards from 14 to two Doctors say radical plan to merge Scotland's health boards should be scrapped 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. Morgan, who earned between £160,000 and £165,000 a year, had been chief executive of NHS NSS since 2021. BBC Scotland asked NHS NSS on 10 March what would happen with Morgan now her role was defunct. The health board said the senior NHS executive was "considering her options and next opportunity in line with national workforce policies". After a follow-up query three weeks later, Keith Redpath, the then chairman of NHS NSS, replied: "Mary Morgan retires on 3 May, concluding an exceptional 44-year career in NHS Scotland." The NHS NSS accounts for 2025/26, external show Morgan retired under contractual redundancy terms from PSD Scotland on 3 May and received a related amount of £378,000. The same accounts show Morgan's pension pot, known as The Cash Equivalent Transfer Value, is just over £2m. A PSD Scotland spokesperson said: "Mary Morgan retired on 3 May, concluding an exceptional 44-year career in NHS Scotland.