Health chiefs will cull up to 8,000 non-frontline NHS jobs as part of a clampdown on 'waste and wokery' in the health service.
NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard revealed plans to cut between 30 to 40 per cent of jobs at a trio of health bodies by 2024.
How long have the 'conservatives' been in power? Why are they only just getting around to this now..?
The move will see between 6,000 and 8,000 of the 20,000 jobs at NHS Digital and Health Education England (HEE), which is in charge of training the workforce.
The two central bodies are being merged with NHS England in an effort to reduce duplicating roles and save up to £1billion over five years.
How is it possible that they were ever set up under the noses of successive Health Ministers in the first place? Did no-one have their eye on the ball?
Previous efforts to slash bureaucracy and doubling up of roles in the NHS have cost the taxpayer billions in pay-offs only for the health service to rehire them.
This time, put the stake through the heart AND cut off the head and stuff the mouth with garlic, just to be sure...
"billions in pay-offs only for the health service to rehire them."
ReplyDeleteI once worked for a Regional Health Authority and saw this up front. For the mass media, over a hundred jobs on site had been 'cut' - but personnel were either moved to other positions in other parts of the NHS, or rehired within a few days.
e.g. I remember one guy who was sacked without notice, escorted off the premises (to prevent sabotage), only to reappear about a week later in a job with another name. No a secret either; all this was openly boasted of within the organization.
After all these decades, it is clear that the NHS is un-reformable. But there is, anyway, no motivation to improve actual health service provision, since the organization is controlled by and for managers; and managers always just 'manage' - they don't provide health services at anything above the minimum level they can get-away-with.
Unbelievable lies from the deceitful. But the public will fall for it (again), as memories are short.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe it's possible to make meaningful reforms within the present, rotten NHS structure - it must be replaced, section by section, with robust control to stop this nonsense completely. Perhaps this new parallel organisation could be called UK Medical, or similar?
No doubt, the culling will involve nurses and other front line medical staff. In modern Britain, it has been decided that hospitals do not need nurses, or doctors, only administrative managers and HR staff. However would we manage without them if they were the first to go. Meanwhile, the 'elite' will go private.
ReplyDeletePenseivat
This, the utter destruction of the NHS, all happened so very quickly.
ReplyDeleteI trained/worked as a nurse in a London teaching hospital with multiple sites and over a thousand beds in the mid 90's. We, nursing staff, had two levels of management above us (Ward Sisters and a single Matron for the entire hospital - all clinical staff directly involved in patient care).
Five years later I worked in a small, rural city hospital with a hundred+ beds. By then I had five layers of management above me (not individuals, layers of multiple staff) and eight matrons for the tiny hospital (who sat all day in the coffee shop emailing each other so as to 'prove' they were busy and necessary - make work justification) not one of whom ever came close to a patient or did any vaguely clinical work. All had offices, administration staff, secretaries and clerks (as well as perks, junkets, company cars, etc.). We regularly ran out (couldn't pay for because of limited budget) of the most basic supplies (I'm talking bandages and toilet paper) on the wards, but the mangers 'always' had a new car every year, and 'essential' conferences (all coincidentally held in exotic, sunny foreign vacation spots) to attend.
Nursing was one of the last to succumb yet now there are (literally) more 'specialist' (smoking cessation, diversity, you name it) 'advisors', with offices, staff, parking spots and company cars than there are actual ward nurses. More managers and admin staff than clinical workers and ancillary/support (everything from physios, lab techs, to plumbers and ground-keepers) combined.
Five years to go from a (barely) functional service to a comfortable sinecure for the bureaucrats and parasites.
As Ed says, it's gone too far, it's beyond fixing. Burn it to the ground, salt the earth (and nuke it from orbit, just to be sure) the start again.
If you don't mind me borrowing this for my place, it hits the nail on the head.
DeleteThe NHS is a corrupt death cult and I have said so many times over the past several years; in fact, I even sent my MP evidence of this, which can be found from searching the internet.
ReplyDeleteThe result was silence, no response from my MP. And I believe the reason for this is the condition know as wilful ignorance. These people don't want to acknowledge the truth because they would then have to make a decision, either to do something or to ignore it. Either way, by acknowledging the evidence, they could never say they were unaware of these things. But they would see the do something option as being too dangerous for them personally so the least troublesome option is to do nothing.
And that is the mindset of every MP, every Civil Servant, every Medical practitioner. Do nothing until matters come to a crisis and something has to be done.
The NHS will continue down its current path until a crisis intervenes; for me, a good start would be to decrease the funding of the NHS by 10% each year to force those in the management of the death cult to have to show their true colours, such as when there are only managers left and few hospitals open for business.