Nhs Lays Off Doctors And Nurses In ‘Unthinkable’ Cuts To Balance Books

[naomi24]

The health service must ‘balance the books’ as the pay rise for junior doctors swallows extra £11bn and despite a £22 billion funding boost, says the Daily Telegraph.

 

There must be better ways to save money than axing front line staff.  So many managers and admin staff and the NHS spends approximately £40 million annually on roles and activities related to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). This includes spending on diversity officers and associated educational initiatives. Some diversity officers can earn over £100,000 per year. 

[ToraToraTora]

lay of all the empire building managers and non medical staff.

[DDIL]

Get rid of the 'bank' nurses and dr's (agency) will save a fortune and direct hire.

[naomi24]

The BBC is reporting it now.  

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgle2xkg3wpo

 

 

[ToraToraTora]

DDIL yes bang on, they pay a kin fortune for agency staff, they could increase salaries and hire direct and still save money.

...but that's just a tiny problem. The whole show needs root and branch reform.

[ToraToraTora]

Why don't they cut all the pointless levels of admin and clerical staff rather than the staff they actually need?

[davebro3]

//Some diversity officers can earn over £100,000 per year. //

Be paid? yes - Earn? I doubt it.

[New Judge]

"The whole show needs root and branch reform."

Someone else looking to "kill off" the NHS!  😀🤣

[ToraToraTora]

not me guvnor, I like the idea of the NHS, I just think it's grown into an amorphous mass off innefficiency.

[fender62]

we need a trump Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to bring accountability, thats a cut n paste, but you get the point, love to see some heads roll over fraud and other things.

[THECORBYLOON]

"lay of all the empire building managers and non medical staff."

Does, "non-medical staff", not include the support staff who keep hospitals running?

[barry1010]

My neighbour is a psychiatric nurse, with over 30 years experience. She is salaried to work 2 nights a week at the local psychiatric hospital.  She works two or three night at the same hospital through an agency. It is bonkers. 

 

[Ellipsis]

> There must be better ways to save money than axing front line staff

You would hope so, otherwise it will be the biggest betrayal since the Lib Dems agreed to tripling tuition fees.

[New Judge]

“not me guvnor, I like the idea of the NHS, I just think it's grown into an amorphous mass off innefficiency.”

Me too Tora. I was simply trying to emphasise that every time “root and branch” reform is mentioned in relation to the NHS, hands go up in he air, howls of anguish are heard and accusations of “killing off” the NHS are thrown.

The fact is that if nothing is done to radically reform the NHS (particularly it funding model) there will be no need no kill it off. It will die a slow and painful death (rather like many of its patients).

“Does, "non-medical staff", not include the support staff who keep hospitals running?”

Probably not. It probably means the support staff who do nothing to keep hospitals running - of whom here are plenty.

[Deskdiary]

5.59pm - No.

 

But it can include others. Like, for instance, when the ex-Chairman of an NHS Trust was interviewed on the radio a couple of years ago and he talked about, after his time as chairman, a job being advertised for a "Life lived" manager on more than £100k a year which, it turned out, was a role to, fundamentally, get feedback on the Trust's mental health service. That IS a non-job. You multiply non-jobs like this and the DEI cobblers across the piece and I dread to think how many Drs and nurses that could pay for.

 

But as per you were being wilfully obtuse.

[webbo3]

So how will Labour cut the waiting lists

[Deskdiary]

They'll lie and massage the figures.

 

Like when they said compared to the previous year the number of appointments had grown massively, while conveniently forgetting to mention they were measuring this against the period when Drs were on strike.