Thursday 28 April 2011

Don't Believe the NHS Hype



I read an interesting article the other day.


It's nice of the Daily Mail to take a fresh look at the Government cuts to the NHS. You can always depend on the Daily Mail to take  an objective view on, well,nothing really. There were a few things in the article that made me really think.

They point out that the NHS isn't actually being cut (Probably best to disregard this article then). In fact, it turns out that the NHS is advertising 6,175 vacancies on a single day. Now that is a lot of jobs available, it's almost like the economic crisis has been invented by the left wing media. Those bastards!

I'm assuming that the reason the article doesn't mention the fact that the NHS is one of the biggest employers in the UK or the fact that 6,175 jobs make up less than 0.5% of the total jobs in the NHS was just an oversight on the journalists behalf.

They then go on to expose the unbelievable wages that NHS are paying to people with jobs that are a total waste of time. Such as an Associate Director of HR. I know, I don't understand either. How can the NHS, with 1.7million members of staff need a HR department. They cover such stupid things human rights, equality, pay services, performance and productivity. Sounds like a waste of time to me.

It gets worse. Kingston Hospital NHS Trust is going to pay their new chief operating officer a “staggering” £120,000. Unbelievable!

Oh, just one quick thing. Did you know that the editor of the Daily Mail had a pay rise this year of 70% to £2.8 millionProbably deserves it much more than an Operating Officer of an NHS Trust though.   


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