Tuesday, November 21, 2006

NHS won't be in red for long


Were you worried about the NHS? Well fear not Patricia Hewitt is going to get the NHS out of the red and into the black. She said "I have said that we will return the NHS as a whole to financial balance by the end of March next year and I take personal responsibility."

So it’s good news then. Well not really. She went onto say "some parts of the NHS in England have taken on too many doctors and nurses". Where are those hospitals? Are they the same hospitals that are responsible for 13,000 nursing posts being axed because of the NHS debt?

Well it looks like those 3000 doctors who can’t find a job better start flying abroad seeing as they will never get a job here. What about immigrant doctors? Surely they should be the first to go?

1 comment:

alanorei said...

They don't appear to be getting rid of any 'managers' or 'administrators.' I am in the process of retiring from our locality's most prestigious academic institution. By its own published figures, it has 1 full-time manager* for every 6-7 academic staff and about 3 administrators for every 4 academic staff.

Academics make up about 40% of the 1500 or so staff employees.

*About half the managers are called 'Senior Technical and Professional' these days but they used to be called 'Middle Managers.'

Most academic staff would probably agree that management, by and large, is not of a particularly high order and many admin. staff are relatively remote from giving support to academic delivery.

I would guess the NHS is similarly top heavy.