Wednesday, Jun 10, 2009
More green shoots !!!!
BBC News: NHS 'faces huge budget shortfall'
The health service will face the most severe and sustained financial shortfall in its history after 2011, a report by NHS managers warns.
A simple solution, sack all the over-paid managers with the massive salaries, easy jobs and money draining pensions.
Retrain them all as nurses.
Job done.
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1. doomwatch said...
Something needs to be done around how budgets are set and handled in the NHS. It's a complete joke. Many a doc I know has
told stories of depts buying lap tops etc that just sit there doing nowt just so they "use/keep their budget". This
sort of poor management needs to be addressed, and NOT by some over-charging consultancy.
2. mark wadsworth said...
"A simple solution, sack all the over-paid managers with the massive salaries, easy jobs and money draining pensions"
That's the MW policy on the NHS in a nutshell!
The Tory Health spokesman Andrew Lansley was on the radio this morning and refused to even countenance this sort of policy, I tell you, they are useless.
3. 51ck-6-51x said...
M.W. for President! :)
4. nomad said...
It's the old tale of the bottomless money pit again.
My "dirty tale" is of toilet rolls being bought by the hundreds of thousands at a greater cost per roll than would be paid at Tesco's - sans negotiation.
5. little professor said...
My local trust has just changed its domestic service provider (the people that do the cleaning etc - used to be done in-house but now contracted out to private companies who employ the cheapest labour and do the minimum work, leading to massive rises in hospital infections - but that's another story.)
Anyway, the new company has just gone around replacing all the paper towel dispensers and liquid soap dispensers in all the bathrooms and clinical areas in all four hospital sites operated by the trust. There was nothing wrong with the dispensers, but presumably the contractor is charging the trust and getting a hefty markup on each. Meanwhile trying to get them to mop the floors occasionally is a thankless task. It's a minor example, but this kind of thing happens over and over again, always authorized by some hopeless middle manager who then decides the only way to claw the money back is to shut wards and freeze recruitment to nursing posts.
6. Mr G said...
Copy the private sector, no more final salary pensions for any NHS employees.
I am aware that new employees have to join money purchase schemes but just consider the army of ex and current employees who are, or will be, in receipt of index linked final salary pensions.
This is immoral when the majority of people don't have the luxury of these schemes yet have to help finance them through taxation.
7. mr g said...
Copy the private sector, no more final salary pensions for NHS employees.
I am aware that most new employees have to join a money purchase scheme but just consider the army of ex and current employees who are, or will be, in receipt of an index linked final salary pension.
This is immoral when you consider that the majority of people don't have the luxury of these gold plated schemes and indeed finance them through taxation.
And finally, the old argument about the public sector having lower pay rates is tosh, a report this week shows that it pays an average salary of nearly £60 per week more than the private sector.
8. doomwatch said...
Cut GP wages for a start. Most are usless, and couldn't diagnose their way out
of a wet paper bag. Some are killers through ignorance and lack of patient care.
9. Johnmcgeechan said...
"mr g", can you provide a link to that story please ?
Funny, 2 years ago people all agreed what a great job the NHS staff did and how they deserved more money. Most people accepted that a final salary pension was not that unreasonable for a group of people who devoted their whole life to an institution whilst putting up with crap pay. Then about 2 years ago I heard a labour minister mention the cost of the final salary pensions in a very round about way, I said to the wife (who left a lucrative career as an Oracle consultant to become a midwife on about a third of her salary, to put something back into the community) watch out, this is the start. I knew then that it was a cynical step that the govt was taking to test the water, to see what appetite the public had for it. Then slowly there has been more and more coverage of this and as usual people start to repeat it as if it was a common sense view that they had long held. Reading these comments it really is like watching blades of grass blowing in the wind.