How do you feel about this.... £100k pa down the drain

[bazwillrun]

http://www.telegraph....on-almost-100000.html

Fekkin disgraceful

what do we need here most a brand manager or nurses....tough one that

[emmie]

i rather agree with you, sadly it will be at the expense of those people, now what are they called, oh yes nurses, another shambolic waste of money. The NHS, local councils are littered with them

[lady-janine]

agree with you em. what a waste.

[Svejk]

Probably his girlfriend. He's good at the old waffling, aint he.

[emmie]

plumb the depths so to speak

[youngmafbog]

It is absolutly crazy but typical of the NHS and Government.

Then when we try to get rid of them the lefites sack the front line staff to prove a point.

Someone from the outside needs to come into ALL Government bodies and shake them hard. I reckon we could get by on at least 50% less. Private companies went through it so why no Government bodies.

No doubt the resident pinkos on here will have something to say.

[Svejk]

Around here, first mention of cuts & they cancelled the 'Meals on Wheels' service, oap drop-in centre & various other front line services. But they were still advertising all the usual non-jobs. Assistant Co-ordinater of Communication, Walking Co- ordinater, etc, etc. Like you say the Liberatti will explain it all to us plebs.

[Svejk]

Around here, first mention of cuts & they cancelled the 'Meals on Wheels' service, oap drop-in centre & various other front line services. But they were still advertising all the usual non-jobs. Assistant Co-ordinater of Communication, Walking Co- ordinater, etc, etc. Like you say the Liberatti will explain it all to us plebs.

[naomi24]

It doesn't surprise me. The lunatics are running the asylum - and have been for years.

[LazyGun]

I dunno -an unattended brand, or one thats not treated properly can cause all sorts of problems. A septic brand is an ugly thing.....

[factor-fiction]

I agree that in any large multi-billion pound organisation (public or private but especially public) there is a lot of money wasted. Paying money to consultants, for example, to tell you the answer you want to hear, for example. But sometimes what appears to be unnecessary can actually be important. I have seen roles similar to this branding one before and I'm sure it involves much more than checking logos. It will involve ensuring that organisations that use the logo adhere to the standards and values that are core to the NHS so that patients etc who come into contact with them retain trust in the NHS and are given the right level of service.

[LazyGun]

I think I would agree with other posters, joking aside. Such matters as promoting NHS values to private partners could be done using existing management and administration teams, rather than creating a new job at a very generous salary.

Its very difficult to see this as anything other than a luxury, a vanity position, in a time of austerity, and cuts to front line services.

[ChillDoubt]

The NHS is rife with JAFA's

Just Another $%&*ing Administrator.

Yet they pour scorn on the RCN when they voice their fears:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20301766

[LazyGun]

....And its always nice to see the spittle -flecked rantings of those frothing- at -the- mouth posters, whose objectivity is hopelessly compromised by their ideological conviction that public service is actually a communist assault on the sunlit idyll of capitalism, and that private companies are actually saviours of the world......

[Bazile]

//Sir David said the position was needed to make sure private providers "understand what it means to be part of the NHS...the culture and the values and treat their patients accordingly//

What a load of crap !!

[bazwillrun]

shows what they think of the medical staff like nurses etc, if they can pay this sort of money for what is no more than a low grade clerical job.

always struck me as disgraceful that the highest paid people in hospitals are non medical pen pushers for the most part.

i was having a chat with my GP the other day and he summed up the state of things by saying that medical people like himself are now more worried about the consequences from making a clerical error , not ticking all the boxes etc, than from an incorrect diagnosis.

[emmie]

our council has cut many of our libraries, they are now run by volunteers, the caretaking services are shambolic, as to sweeping the streets, not sure who is in charge but they need a rocket up their arse.

[ChillDoubt]

Was your last post aimed at anyone in particular LazyGun?
Or is it broad spectrum?