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
You seem to believe that NHS England is the same as the NHS. It’s not.
NHS England is a quango, created by the Tories, that added another layer of management to an already top-heavy organisation. Its goal was to detach the NHS further from the government in order to make it easier to privatise. By all objective accounts, NHS England has been a dead weight and an abject failure. It is not the only means available to administer the NHS, instead, it complicates administration due to a built-in bias in favour of privatisation.
Now, it may be that your admin job is essential, but not all of them are, by any means. Those that are will get relocated to the actual NHS, not the quango.
Those that are will get relocated to the actual NHS, not the quango.
Or the government department,
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.
What makes you think the guardian are any better than the mail?
Not being openly fascist?
No they just do it more politely a la lib dems
