A LIST of top NHS earners in the district's health trusts has revealed there are more than 300 people commanding wages of £100,000 plus, with 20 of them earning £200,000 or more.

The highest NHS earner across the district is Professor Clive Kay, the then medical director and deputy chief executive of Bradford Teaching Hospitals, whose combined salary package was £282,500. Professor Kay is currently the chief executive at the trust.

Bradford Hospitals also employs all the other workers on £200,000-plus wages.

Bridget Fletcher, the chief executive of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, with a salary package in the £190,950 bracket, is one recipient of a bumper pay deal who has been named as part of the investigation into pay levels within NHS organisations,

The TaxPayers' Alliance yesterday revealed its NHS Rich List yesterday, using data from 2013/14, with a total of 322 senior employees revealed as taking home a big pay packet. Of these 15 were non-clinical positions.

Figures for Bradford district showing how many NHS employees get in excess of £100,000 revealed Airedale NHS Foundation Trust has 74 including four non-clinical employees, Bradford District Care Trust has 24 employees including three in non-clinical roles, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has 220 employees including its four non-clinical Trust's board members while NHS Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven CCG has none, NHS Bradford City CCG has two non-clinical employees and finally NHS Bradford Districts CCG has two non-clinical staff.

A Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust spokesman said: “We have always been open and transparent about the salaries of our board and directors, which are published in our annual report.

"Remuneration and expenses are awarded in line with the standard NHS executive and chair expenses policy while consultant medical staff are remunerated using the national NHS Medical and Dental pay-scales.”

Those pay scales include basic salary, additional sessions, clinical excellence awards and employer’s contribution to the NHS pension scheme.

A spokesman for Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Details of the salaries of our Board of Directors are made public every year in our Annual Report so that our community has complete transparency about its local hospital.

"We use the latest independent benchmarking information to ensure an appropriate level of remuneration while also being within the pay scales for similar hospitals, type of role and pay of other staff. Consultant medical staff remuneration follows the national NHS Medical pay scales."

And Fiona Sherburn, deputy director of human resources and organisation development at Bradford District Care Trust, said: "The salaries of our Board of Directors are published every year in our annual report and accounts, and made available publicly. The executive roles and remuneration have been independently evaluated, as a means of us being open, transparent and fair. "

The Trust also confirmed to the Telegraph & Argus its highest earner in 2013/14 was its chief executive, Simon Large who was appointed in 2006.

According to figures provided to the Taxpayers' Alliance his salary in 2013/14 was £151,418.

Mr Large's career in mental health started as a nurse, then a ward manager.

Jonathan Isaby, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: “No-one begrudges paying doctors and nurses well for the tough jobs that they do, but it’s galling to see bosses at failing hospitals continuing to rake in the cash. It’s an insult to taxpayers, but it’s even worse for the patients who have suffered because of mismanagement, and worse. The rewards-for-failure culture is rife in the NHS and it must be stamped out as a matter of urgency.”