A MENTAL health trust has paid out more than £4 million in golden goodbyes to staff in four years, The Argus can reveal.

More than 100 staff members received additional payments beyond their statutory entitlement from Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust between 2012 and 2015.

Unions have raised concerns about the loss of experienced and talented staff at huge financial cost to the taxpayer.

Reported by the Brighton Argus. You can read the full story here. 

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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.