Saturday, Jan 27, 2007
How to manage a budget well
The Express: Nurses told: Work for no pay
What a shambles and very sad. In the broader sense an economy with no where left to run.
Posted by sovietuk @ 12:27 PM (144 views) Add Comment
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1. uncle chris said...
As everyone know, hospitals (and I'm not talking about the financial drain of NHS managers here) are not funded enough. Wards and beds are closing whilst the population is going up. In the hospital where my wife works, they have closed 2 wards (despite regularly having bed crises), but are building a huge new complex - 80% of which is going to be taken up by administration staff offices. They recently spent £50,000 on a new front desk (that I could have built for less than a £1000), and £20,000 on 40 new ergo-designed chairs for admin staff. I really do despair about how the health service is being run. Like education and the home office - this government really doesn't have a clue.
2. japanese uncle said...
Sack 90% of the pen-pushing fat cats infested in the NHS, then every problem will be solved by itself, saving billions. They had better find themselves mopping the floors of the same hospital they infested. Also cut doctors' salary by 30%, and increase nurses salary by 10%. Cancel all PFI-like schemes which in effect nothing short of giving away people's assets to the stinking rich. 200,000 beds run by more than 200,000 staff is really a fiscal nightmare unheard of in any part of the world!
3. dohousescrashinthewoods said...
Is this the service sector inflation which is said to have been offset by China?
I.e. a hospital now costs double to run (and the government can't afford it, just like consumers can't afford gas bills) yet you can still get a pair of sweatshop shoes in Mark One for spare change?
And Gordon claims economic stability? Come on guys, I know the government puts out stuff like Celebrity Love Island to keep people stupid, stupefied and controllable, but surely we're not that dim, are we? Unplug your telly, throw it away.
4. uncle chris said...
JU, You would probably expect this from me, but GPs aside, I would have to disagree on cutting doctors salary. When my wife started 3 years ago she was earning around £6 per hour - based on an average 60 hour week - not surprisingly the managers have worked out ways to get round the European working directive. She now earns just under £14 per hour, so are you suggesting experienced doctors should be earning less than £10 and hour - probably less than a builder or a long distance lorry driver. Why on earth would anyone even consider becoming a doctor if that was the case. Even among hospital doctors, GP wages are indefensible, but a direct consequence of incompetent negotiations by NHS managers and the government's fixation with targets.
5. japanese uncle said...
Obviously I was referring to GP's earning 7digits, some earning 300,000 pounds in Scottish islands, saying they do not need this much (how ridiculous!), not 14 pounds per hour kind of doctors, whose salary can even be raised.
6. headmelter said...
I don't even want to get started on this topic.
I have worked for the NHS for 15 years and have seen an incredible amount of waste, incompetent management, introduction of ridiculous policies, increase of pointless bureaucracy, production of ridiculous targets, blah blah I could go on ad infinitum. Every new management binlid in the door comes up with a fantastic new idea which ultimatley costs money and is a waste of time and energy. If one of these idiots asked me to work for nothing they would get both barrels, maybe if these managers didn't have meetings about meetings some work might actually get done.
There has been an introduction of a whole host of 'middle management' at the cost of front line clinicians and I am at a loss as to what these idiots do other than create a lot of unnecessary work for already busy clinicians in order to justify their own existence.
Sorry this post has turned into a rant but articles like this just wind me up.
Rant over!
7. little professor said...
GPs are earning ridiculous amounts of money - average salary well over £100,000 - wherea myself as a hospital doctor get just £40,000 after 9 years of training. GPs have screwed the government big time, laughing all the way to the bank while refusing to do out of hours work or home visits.
8. Chillilizard said...
"Patricia Hewitt said she would take personal responsibility for the NHS breaking even this year but now it seems doctors and nurses are expected to pay the price. "
How many chances does this bitch get???
Even her approach is just plain wrong... The money is gone... You cannot cut services in order to make up the shortfall. The problem is very bad financing and very bad management.
She should be fired!!! I think a week spent in the stocks at piccadilly circus is too good for her.