The NHS Pays Diversity Officers Up to £75,000 a Year. No Wonder it Can’t Afford to Treat Patients
In the comments section of a recent newspaper article, one reader cruelly suggested that had the paediatric doctors at Lucy Letby’s hospital reported her for the crime of misgendering anyone, Letby would have been disciplined and probably fired faster than you could scream ‘transphobe’. But murdering premature babies, that was seemingly not a serious offence for our woke hospital bosses. And so, our politicians and media promise us (yet another) ‘independent inquiry’ which will (yet again) ‘leave no stone unturned’ and will (yet again) conclude that ‘important lessons have been learnt’ and will (yet again) ‘ensure this never happens again’.
Meanwhile our beloved NHS (which is the envy or the world) rushes ahead with hiring ever more DIE (Diversity, Inclusion and Equality) managers. Waiting lists are shooting up towards eight million, health services are collapsing and thousands live in pain or die early or unnecessarily due to a lack of care. Yet our NHS bosses seem convinced that the only way to save our NHS is by hiring more utterly pointless, sociology-degreed DIE parasites presumably because NHS bosses believe ever more of these DIE managers will hugely improve the service offered by the NHS.
Let’s just take a moment to look at a few of the latest DIE vacancy ads:
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
People Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer: £28,407-£34,581 a year: Do you have a passion for equity and inclusion? Are you an excellent administrator with the skills to effectively manage a varied workload where workflows can change rapidly? Do you enjoy having a wide variety of tasks when you’re at work? If yes, this may be the role you are looking for. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Culture and Engagement team here at Sherwood Forest Hospitals and support making a difference for colleagues in the Trust
The successful candidate will support the delivery of the EDI work programme across Sherwood Forest Hospitals. The post holder will assist our staff networks in creating, developing, and executing action plans to effect positive change within the Trust.
I’m sorry to ask some stupid questions, but why does some hospital most of us have never heard of need a Culture and Engagement team including a People Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer? How many pointless bureaucrats are in this Culture and Engagement team? How much does this Culture and Engagement team cost us? What does a Culture and Engagement team have to do with patient care?
Kettering NHS Hospital Foundation Trust
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer: £28,407-£34,581 a year: We have an exciting opportunity to join the HR team at Northampton General Hospital as Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Engagement Officer, initially as a fixed-term contract to the end of March 2023. You will work with the new Group Head of OD and Inclusion and build on the positive foundations of work across the organisation.
Key part of the role will be to work closely with our four staff networks, being the primary point of contact and support for network Co-Chairs, and supporting the delivery of EDI initiatives across the organisation.
- Operate as Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Engagement Officer within The Trust to provide advice and support to the wider organisation in terms of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
- To play a key role in the delivering of the Group EDI strategy at KGH
- To be part of the Group and support them to deliver on strategic HR Projects and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion programmes.
- To support the Senior Diversity and Inclusion Specialist with all communication for any Internal KGH EDI requirements and the Diversity Calendar
I apologise again for asking some stupid questions. But why does a hospital like Northampton need a Group Head of OD and Inclusion and a Senior Diversity and Inclusion Specialist and an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer? What on earth do these three people and their staff do all day? What do they contribute to patient care? Just how many people at Northampton hospital waste our money on fatuous DIE nonsense? Is there nobody at Northampton hospital who realises what a farce this pointless and expensive DIE industry is?
University College London Hospitals Trust (UCLH)
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Manager: £51,488-£57,802 a year: UCLH has a strong commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) with multiple projects and initiatives being implemented to help us on our journey of building equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do.
This is an exciting role supporting UCLH’s new Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Lead, on a range of high quality strategic and operational projects to ensure we are delivering sustainable and tangible diversity and inclusion related solution in our workforce policies and practices that lead to increased patient outcomes. Additionally, the post holder will support UCLH’s Staff Networks – BAME, LGBTQ+, Disability, Mental Health, and Women.
UCLH seems to have recently hired a new Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Lead. But now UCLH apparently believes there is so much equality, diversity and inclusion work to be done, that the hospital feels it necessary to splash out over £50,000 a year on an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Manager to support the new Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Lead.
Meanwhile an NHS organisation based in Hemel Hempstead is looking for a Senior Diversity and Inclusion Partner – salary: £70,000 to £75,000: This person’s job is to support the “Director of People” in implementing DIE programmes. If the Senior Diversity and Inclusion Partner is to be paid £70,000 to £75,000, one could wonder how much of our money this person’s boss – the Director of People – is pocketing each year.
Many of us are probably aware that our NHS is busy hiring DIE staff. But probably few of us realise quite how many of these people there are in each of our hospitals. While the NHS treats ever fewer patients at an ever-increasing cost to us, it seems to be Christmas every day for the ever-growing empires of DIE gravy-train riders.
Maybe it’s time to scrap the woke, useless, collapsing NHS and just start again?
David Craig is the author of There is No Climate Crisis, available as an e-book or paperback from Amazon.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
As a cohort this group of “staff” sow misery, confusion, upset and unpleasantness. A band of employees who do nothing all day but generate nightmares in others. Say one wrong word and the next thing you know it’s your manager with a wagging finger –
“can I just have a word?”
This cohort must reduce real productivity by God knows what percentage, but substantial, and create negativity and resentment by the bucket load.
Anybody seriously intent on improving and reforming the NHS would put every last one of these shysters on a plane to Rwanda. Bloody evil and nasty underworld creeps.
Totally, hux. As if the NHS needs any more useless, office-dwelling, woketard saps to alter the slo-mo suicidal course it’s on. Meanwhile, in Ireland, speaking of ”woketard saps”, yes ”woman” is now sexist ( FFS X 1 billion!! 😮 );
”Ministers are admitting a referendum to remove the Constitutional reference to a woman’s “duties in the home” is not achievable by its planned November date.
There is currently a “preferred wording” that takes out gendered language but the Electoral Commission has told the Government it needs three to four months to hold its first referendum, the Irish Independent has learned.
Politicians are also fearful of the issue being drawn into a gender debate. British politicians have struggled, for instance, when asked to define a woman – with any language likely to cause controversy.
“The Constitution doesn’t define ‘family’ or ‘woman’,” said a minister, admitting there was awareness of potential pitfalls “in the current climate with all the anti-trans stuff”.
He added: “We will, of course, be deleting ‘woman’ by removing the sexist language in favour of ‘care/carers’.”
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/women-in-the-home-referendum-now-unlikely-to-take-place-by-leo-varadkars-november-deadline/a654190598.html
Seriously I could cry at this madness. This is Orwell on steroids.
See this clip where she does the predictable politician thing of responding to a clear question by evading it then waffling and coming across like a complete plank. Seriously mental it really is, and as a woman myself I’m even more ruddy disgusted that a fellow female can carry on like this. I mean, how did people define what a woman was prior to 2020, for crying out loud, because I don’t remember this ever being a ‘thing’?!
https://twitter.com/griptmedia/status/1696543857641435371
All I can say is the Irish people must be pooping gold coins out of their backsides if they have so much money they can waste it on such frankly facile questions. Everyone who is not a woke idiot knows what a woman is and what a family is. FFS
There is a plus. This makes it quite clear that the NHS is OVER funded. Not UNDER funded as we are constantly told.
Public sector must wee away millions of our dosh in this trash. A real conservative government would have sacked the lot in days.
Thanks – an overfunded NHS indeed.
I’ve said that many times over the years I worked in the NHS, the money needed to be prioritised for frontline staff – including the administrative support staff for those frontline staff – as there were far too many chiefs for not enough indians.
And I said that to my boss too!! She agreed with me.
Yet us frontline staff weren’t productive enough…. Amazing how unproductive one is as a highly paid admin assistant when admin isn’t your forte….
Yes, hiring diversity officers is a problem and a giant waste of money.
But that’s not the problem with the NHS. The NHS is a badly constructed mammoth bureaucracy.
It’s what you get when you build a health service along Soviet technocratic lines.
Even if you didn’t have diversity officers you’d still have a hugely inefficient health service built like most bureaucracies to serve itself first.
Random bit of information: Everthing you wrote above can also be found in descriptions of the German state between 1919 and 1933 whose inefficiencies and exclusive self-serving were greatly lamented by … German communists and you are thus articulating a very traditional communist position.
I doubt German communists would have advocated for healthcare to be subjected to free market forces and minimal state intervention like I would though.
Like the police, the NHS has forgotten its primary purpose, why it came to be. Its purpose now is self-perpetuation. It exists purely to be able to continue its existence,.
It is now a place where you can have a long career, and never, ever come into a direct contact with a patient, nor do anything relevant for patient care. In the private sector, if you are more than two steps away from the cold edge of doing something that makes profit, or enabling the thing that makes profit, then you shouldn’t be there.
I’m sure someone will point out that ‘Diversity jobs’ seem to attract a non-diverse group of applicants. Black, female, non-STEM degree. Almost as if someone was trying to use this as a racial ‘levelling up’ mechanism. Hmmm. I wonder…
All bureaucracies morph sooner or later to work on behalf of themselves rather than for those who fund them.
Indeed, one can see the whole public sector that way now, the pig that troughs but never has enough.
You could cut the Civil Service in half and it would still have time on its hands.
The ‘treating patients’ bit is now just the front for the self-perpetuating, malign bureaucracy behind, which pursues other more fashionable causes – like the tiny tailor-shop frontage in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (for those of a certain age). Three local examples of their priorities: 1. name of (very well known) hospital now completely expunged from signage, bus routes etc (it’s the ‘Biomedical complex’ you want, idiot) 2. Car park usage now reversed- car parks closest to buildings are now for staff only, patients/visitors can trek c 0.75 miles from multi storey 3. An uncle who lives ten miles away recently had very painful/intimate surgery, was advised to cycle in (and, presumably back home again afterwards), to “help us meet our net zero targets and reduce carbon emissions”. We are the “useless breathers” getting in the way of their programme and they view us with contempt. Trouble with contempt is, it always ends up being reciprocal.
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
“This is an exciting opportunity”
Kettering NHS Hospital Foundation Trust
“We have an exciting opportunity”
University College London Hospitals Trust (UCLH)
“This is an exciting role”
Their job descriptions certainly aren’t diverse.
😀😀😀
How does a person become a qualified DIE person? What qualifications and experience must they have? Do they have to be a member of some oppressed group,perhaps they must demonstrate the wisdom of Solomon, or perhaps Buddha?
where do you go to get these qualifications? Who sets the tests and judges? Some priestlike figures perhaps.
If such Ghandi like figures do exist what the heck are they doing working in an nhs trust, they should be out in Ukraine, and Syria for example solving world peace.
But as I suspect they are Political science, philosophy or HR grads, who are self satisfied virtue signalling grifters, who contribute nothing to the harmony or core identity of an organisation, but instead sew dislike, discord and unpleasantness.
Personally I would fire the lot, the world and workplace is better without them.
They need to be experts in ‘diversity’ which means they need to have the correct critical consciousness … in other words they need to be a neo marxist / neo communist.
They are commissars.
Diversity only works one way ——Less white people. ——I remember finishing a training course some time ago with 4 other white people and the training officer gave us a little talk at the end of it before we were to start work. He said “You will have noticed that there are many Black and Asian people working here. Should any of you say anything to offend these people you may face disciplinary action and possible dismissal. Do you have any questions”? —–As I wasn’t particularly fussy about this job anyway I put up my hand and said, “If a Black or Asian person says something to offend me will they also face disciplinary action and possible dismissal”? ———I have never in all my life seen a jaw drop so fast as the guy stared at me like I was from Mars.
Good on you.👍
Could maybe have been worded a little better: Excuse me, sir, but I noticed that there are also many white people working here. Do you give the same talk to black and asian prospects regarding them? Or could such abusive behaviour result in disciplinary action and possibly, your dismissal?
Maybe a bit too long to be effective but recruiters certainly aren’t supposed to abuse prospects because of their skin colour, even if it happens to be white.
Nope. It is the training officer who could have worded it better NOT ME. His remarks were absurd NOT MINE. ——I gave him back what he dished out. Staying silent or using weasel words on this tyranny of diversity is NOT an option
An Important, if depressing, article.
Incidentally the NHS organisation based in Hemel Hempstead is NHS Professionals which – according to Wikipedia – is wholly owned by the Dept of Health and Social Care. Which puts these DIE managers close to the beating (bloated?) heart of the NHS.
These Political Commissars’ salaries are high for danger money reasons.
We are taking names and it remains to be seen whether we get them against the wall first or vice versa.
Slightly mawkish, but perhaps DIE actually means die, as in death? Cos they sure as hell aren’t spending any money trying to save lives, are they, only pronouns and The Narrative’s™ indoctrination.
Can’t help thinking all these ‘jobs’ aren’t jobs at all..they’re just looking for a problem that doesn’t really exist…
I don’t know how much it would cost, but wouldn’t the money be better spent on opening the closed cancer centres that Professor Karol Sikora has been promoting for ages?
Professor Karol Sikora
@ProfKarolSikora
“I emailed @SteveBarclay
on the 19th of July about working together to reopen the three state-of-the-art Rutherford cancer centres.
I know that he’s aware of the offer, yet no response from him.
With 20,000 NHS cancer patients standing to benefit, it’s very disappointing.”
We all want to know Steve..why isn’t it happening??
These people are no different to the political Commissars of the Soviet Union, enforcing their idiotic beliefs and holding people in terror.
DIE (Diversity, Inclusion and Equality) managers
Ok they’ve started lying.
The original, and they sometimes forget and still use it, was EQUITY not equality.
This is neo communism ….. the intellectual foundations are there for all to see if one take the time to trawl back.
A great guide for this is James Lindsay ….
We are in much deeper trouble than the vast majority yet realises.