If the NHS Desperately Needs More Cash, Why Does it Continue to Waste Millions on Diversitycrats?
According to Tony Blair’s institute, we have three months to save the NHS. It’s so strapped for cash, this Winter is likely to be the most challenging period in its 74-year history. And recent news stories suggest the NHS really is on the brink of collapse – a Cornish pensioner had to wait 15 hours for an ambulance after he broke his pelvis.
But hang on a minute. If the NHS has so little money that it has to be held together with rubber-bands and Copydex, why is it continuing to lavish millions of pounds on equity, diversity and inclusion tsars? After all, it’s not as if the NHS has a problem with diversity. As Fraser Myers pointed out in Spiked, a whopping 30% of NHS medical staff are Asian – compared to just 50% of medical staff who are white.
A reader has sent me an ad that caught his eye for a new position at Moorfields Eye Hospital:
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Manager
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – London
£55,903 – £61,996 a year
Are you passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion? Do you have proven experience in leading change and creating working environments where all colleagues can thrive? Do you like a challenge?
If yes, then this role gives you an exciting opportunity to join the Workforce and OD team here at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS . This newly created post, reporting to the OD Consultant, will work with stakeholders internally and externally to identify and implement changes to make a real difference to the lived experiences of our workforce and help achieve our strategic objectives.
The role is based in our central London hospital and the successful applicant will join a diverse, professional and welcoming HR team. You will enjoy hybrid working and will need to be flexible about working onsite based on the needs of the role.
Moorfields values diversity and inclusion and is committed to the recruitment and retention of under-represented groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.
Why, in God’s name, does an eye hospital need an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Manager?
I’d take the shroud-waving of NHS panjandrums like Matthew Taylor more seriously if the NHS wasn’t wasting so much taxpayers’ money on diversitycrats.
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The NHS is in ruins. It collapsed under its own bureaucratic weight decades ago. COVID-19 simply made it obvious. Any organisation that is massive and is funded by compulsion is immediately infiltrated by left wing groups who know how difficult it is to do in a deregulated free market system. Now the NHS is a financial ruin that prevents people getting comprehensive private healthcare deals. We see the same with the BBC: another entity funded by compulsion where leftists can force their ideals on the public without fear of losing their jobs as the ratings plummet.
The consolidation in the private sector, where giant corporations own pretty much everything, has meant we have only recently seen the impact of far left social agenda, such as ESG, which will likely collapse as people’s investments begin to lose value and force change at the top of the investment banks forcing the agenda.
NHS is a Socialist State-run monopoly. That explains everything.
And who was in the Government when the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) was created? Quite a few hospitals built that way. The pot calling the kettle black, perhaps.
The starting point has to be a wholesale clearout of all non medical staff. Initially there should be a complete clearout of the senior brigades.
Secondly, a complete ban on ANY non medical recruitment.
Third, a ban on part-time working, or at least insisting on everyone working at least four days per week on a rolling seven day rota.
The bill for running the NHS must be reduced by a fixed percentage year on year. The organisation is now a monolithic monster conducting itself like an out of control, war-time submarine and so a danger to all crossing its path.
All “woke” topics must be banned. All official discussions will focus solely on medicine and patient care.
In short we have to “take back control.”
Agreed. Another issue is finding a way to make doctors want to work in the UK. These days, doctors get qualified in the UK, then dash off to other countries with better pay and conditions. My home city has almost no NHS dentists and a GP crisis. You can’t see a GP in person for love nor money here (and that was a problem before COVID-19 was a glint in Bill Gates’s eyes!) A big issue, of course, is education. Boys, who are more likely to grow up to be men who work full time, have been driven away from STEM subjects. There are more women doctors than ever and they are more likely to be part-timers than men. That’s a generational demographic issue that needs urgent address, but won’t be touched for the usual left wing reasons.
In the course of over 20 years, I have yet to encounter a single, female doctor taking a demonstrably existing health problem seriously and being willing to help remedy it. That’s actually the most prominent reason why I never go to the doctor unless it really can’t be helped: I don’t need some random woman in a fairly good professional position telling me that I should be glad that it’s not men who are getting children as lumbago ‘therapy’.
Well, one can only speak as one finds, I suppose but, I can think of three excellent female doctors, all of whom work full time, so perhaps they’re unusual in both regards?
As an addition to that: Thanks to the internet age giving everybody enough rope to hang himself, I’ve meanwhile also learnt what the typical reaction of a formely child-bearing woman to a so-called Hexenschuß is: Crouch beneath a set of blankets and whine for the creator to save you. But other people’s pain is always much easier to endure than one’s own.
Agreed.
Remember that some of the senior “part time workers” also work for themselves, or other private hospitals nearby, such as BUPA. They wouldn’t be happy with that – after all, one of the oddities of the NHS is that it is OK to split a contract like that. Many private firms do not allow it, even if you’re part time. Years ago, I had a part time contract with a firm that expressly said ‘No’, as they did not want me to work for their competitors etc in any way.
Yep, too many chiefs and not enough indians. Its always been the case. And the disparity in pay between the pen-pushers and those on the front line is immense. Almost agree with you entirely but many nurse and auxiliary staff come back to work part-time after maternity leave. Bank nurses would often pick up many outstanding shifts before the gaffers fork out for agency staff though. As most nurses are female, childcare is always gonna be an issue for some of them, hence part time is often preferable as it costs an arm and a leg.
If my ex wasn’t child-minding, my daughter’s job would be pointless as she’d simply be handing her entire wage to some stranger to look after her children…
Despite the fashion for attacking administrators in the NHS and the rest of the public sector (aka tax payer funded sector) I do not agree with a total clear out. We need better top people with a much more clear agenda and objectives. That cannot be achieved within a monolythic structure. The NHS has to be broken up.
I suggest the French and German models be considered – if for no other reason than 1) they seem to work and 2) the left could not object because they are starry eyed about anything from those countries.
An experienced, and elderly cynic might observe that almost all structures, whether they be private or state owned, like to re-organise from time to time. Either internally generated for whatever reason, or on account of corporate takeover. Sometimes the outcome is beneficial (at least to the shareholders), sometimes not, but it often diverts a lot of resources during the process. Look at historic firms like Motorola, GEC (in England), Rolls-Royce, BP – a list as long as your arm.
Even the civil service operates like that; departments come and go, merge or split up.
Well it surely couldn’t be any worse anyway, if a brickie can apparently blag his way into a senior NHS post!
To really improve the NHS, you would have to stop undue influence by big pharma (and the producers over consumers of the service). The crooks won’t do that though, will they?
I think what really grates is the fact it’s a ‘ newly created’ position, no doubt paid for by the NI increase (which they promised it would not be spent on). I really struggle to see what this sort of job actually entails beyond box ticking and form filling, can anyone enlighten me?
And shouldn’t hospitals be endeavouring to utilise the space they have for patients, rather than filling up huge areas with totally unecessary staff?
It’s a job where a self righteous tosser finger wags at colleagues until they leave.
That eye hospital, do they offer eye treatments too?
I wouldn’t bet on it…
The basic problem with the NHS is that it is a nationalised industry.
The first concrete proposal for a “national health service” was put forward by the Conservative MP Henry Willink in a White Paper in 1944. This envisaged harnessing all the various municipal, charitable, private and voluntary hospitals (and other healthcare providers) into a nationwide service, funded by taxes, which would be the main customer of those providers. The beauty of it was that the whole system would be patient-driven. A good idea totally ruined by the then nationalisation-fixated Labour Party.
Thus we have ended up with the current monstrous behemoth, into whose ever-hungry maw successive governments pour ever greater quantities of our money – and for what return? An increasingly dysfunctional organisation where patients are expected to be cringing suppliants who are supposed to be grateful for the chance to be treated at all.
Of course the NHS cheerleaders on the Left endlessly promote the myth that the only possible alternative to “Our Wonderful NHS” (all genuflect please) is the American system.
They should look at France, Germany, Australia – and even read Willink’s White Paper. There is, indeed, a better way.
When the NHS started in 1947 the naive belief was that it would ensure everyone would be made healthy and stay that way. The politicians could not envisage the impact of new medicines keeping people alive for longer and thus succumbing to more chronic diseases. Also the negative effects of eating an ever more unhealthy diet were impossible to conceive 2 years after the end of WW II
If I could stop paying the part of my tax that went to the NHS and made my own choices on how to get medical treatment in the private sector, I’d be MUCH happier, healthier and RICHER!
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Since the NHS is a political ideology, it has been trained by the political class how to deflect criticism when it comes under fire: not enough (never specified) funding; or not enough ‘front-line’ staff; or Tory cuts.
This gives whoever is in political opposition (such as it is these days) ammunition to raise a stink and attack the ruling Party and in the ensuing cat-fight, the real issues are forgotten and the people in the NHS get on with their lives unmolested.
The NHS needs to be shut down and replaced by free market competition for insurance and provision.
We have calls for more money for the NHS, despite the huge growth in funding over many years. It seems technology and management never manage to reduce the cost of any aspect of the NHS.
There are demands for huge subsidies for energy despite increased prices being a part of Government policy for decades to drive us to use less and eventually no hydrocarbons at all – actually, quite soon.
Government interest costs have ballooned and will get much worse following excessive spending.
Meanwhile, income per head (even using admitted rather than the bigger actual population as the divisor), these are not rising even after a few decades of enjoying the benefits of unlimited immigration, we were told about.
So, where has all the money gone?
The NHS appears to be trolling the “adoring public.”
We are paying a fortune for a “service” which has, to all intents and purposes, collapsed. And the only reaction from the Public Health Elite is to push wokery and advertise for more woke Managers to lecture us.
In the old days you weren’t required to be ‘passionate’ about your job. You had to be good at it. If you are/were good at anything that is normally the result of high motivation. However, high motivation or ‘passion’ doesn’t mean one is any good. Lenin was ‘passionate’ about Marxism.
Sorry to say, we are witnessing the death spiral of the nhs. It is going down and barely fit for purpose. Make alternative plans for your healthcare. Stock up on your meds, eat healthy, exercise, meditate, get adequate sleep, avoid the dangerous nhs.