Final payments: health (England and Wales)

Updating author: Julie Steele
Consultant editor: Capsticks

Summary

• NHS employers must ensure that any severance agreement that includes a termination payment in connection with the early termination of an executive director's employment contains a clawback clause. (See Termination agreements and severance payments)
• Guidance is available for NHS employers terminating the employment of a senior manager with the payment of a severance payment. (See Termination agreements and severance payments)
• Guidance is available on the use of confidentiality clauses in severance agreements. (See Termination agreements and severance payments)
• Guidance on the approval process for making non-contractual, novel, or contentious termination payments to staff at any level in the organisation is available. (See Non-contractual severance payments)