30,000 jobs could go in Labour’s radical overhaul of NHS
30,000 jobs could go in Labour’s radical overhaul of NHS
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30,000 jobs could go in Labour’s radical overhaul of NHS
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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.
I'm not surprised to see the Mail, Express, and Telegraph spin this news as Labour scrapping the NHS or mass sacking NHS workers, but I'm sad to see the Guardian doing the same.
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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.
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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
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Those that are will get relocated to the actual NHS, not the quango.
Or the government department,
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