Loss of staff will be at least twice as big as thought, as new NHS England chief tells regional boards to cut costs by 50%
  • gramie@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    From what I have heard, this organisation was a bloated and cumbersome bureaucracy. It attempted to bring caregivers into the decision-making processes, but ignored the fact that doctors and nurses didn’t want to sit in lots of meetings instead of caring for patients.

    I listened to a phone in where a nurse with decades of experience mentioned meetings of up to 40 people, where only five or six attendees were needed. And that at one point she had eight levels of management above her.

  • slakemoth@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Yes progress often begins with sacking 30k employees

    The NHS sorely needs admin jobs doing. I know because i fucking do it everyday.

    Good admin saves the time of nurses and doctors to do clinical work. Its just as crucial as clinical work

    Those suggesting this is sensible have just drunk the cool aid

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    This is such a misleading headline.

    The Tories created NHS England in 2012, basically an independently ran management layer for the NHS. Labour is bringing it back under government control.

    There was a lot of extra bureaucracy by adding this additional ‘NHS England’ layer, with a lot of nurses in particular hired to do it.

    Yes, a lot of these people’s administrative/management jobs will no longer be needed, but it’s very likely a great deal of these people (who again are predominantly nurses) will be hired by the (government-ran) NHS.

        • xor@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Honestly, nothing much of value in that comment, just a long winded version of “labour=Tories=republicans=MAGA so Labour bad”

          Despite how a lot of articles about this are worded, this isn’t just another tory-esque NHS cut. NHS England is an independent governing body for the NHS created by the Tories about a decade ago. It’s job was effectively to delegate responsibility for NHS management decisions away from the government.

          So whether this ends up helping or harming the NHS will basically come down to how smoothly the important roles from NHS England can be covered by the civil service, and how well the health secretary is able to utilise the more direct control over the NHS that he’ll inherit.