David Craig, on April 8th, 2023Easter weekend blog
Don’t get fleeced by the Daily Telegraph
First just a small warning. I’ve got a digital subscription to the Daily Telegraph (DT) which allows me to read it on-line. I’ve just had an email from the DT informing me that my digital subscription is about to be renewed for another year for a mere £189. So I checked what I paid last year – it was only £49. I know there’s a bit of inflation. But an increase from £49 to £189!!!!! So I rang the DT to cancel my subscription and was immediately told the DT would be happy to renew my digital subscription for £49. Amazing what a quick phone call can can achieve. So, if you’re a DT digital subscriber, watch out for the DT’s latest trick.
Cr*p, cr*p and more cr*p
As the useless NHS collapses before our eyes, it is still busy hiring Diversity, Inclusion and Equality (DIE) managers. I suspect (but can’t prove) that the NHS already employs several hundred of these useless wastes-of-skin. Right now I’ve found 26 current vacancies in the NHS around the country for these totally pointless parasites.
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
Here for your enlightenment and entertainment is the woke gobbledigook job description for one of these creatures at the Bolton NHS Foundation Trust salary £48,526 – £54,619 a year
Full Job Description
Working closely with the Associate Director for Organisational Development, you will lead the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) agenda for our workforce and community and support us in making our vision a reality – to make Bolton a place where we all feel we belong.
You will lead a small team of EDI experts in the delivery of both strategic and operational initiatives, aligned to our ambitious EDI Plan. This includes ownership of the plan, with effective oversight and monitoring of progress, in addition to ensuring we meet our statutory obligations. A significant part of the role will be to work with senior leaders across the organisation and key partners within the locality to support us in embedding EDI into everything we do.
This role will suit an experienced Organisational Development professional with a speciality in EDI and a passion for leading cultural change. It is an amazing opportunity to drive change and make a real difference in this important area. You’ll thrive in getting the best from people and relish the opportunity to work in a dynamic, creative, fast paced environment.
Our values demonstrate the beliefs that underpin the way we work together and with patients. Our values drive what we do to help us deliver our ambitions, in a way that puts patient safety and care first.
Cultural diversity is one of our greatest assets at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust. We are committed to ensuring staff and patients are free from discrimination regardless of their ethnicity, background, gender or sexual orientation.
Every person should be able to fulfil their potential at work, and we support people from all communities who teach us more about differences in beliefs and opinions. We pride ourselves on using this knowledge to provide personalised care and ensure that we are a supportive environment in which to work and receive care.
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
Full Job Description
Are you an experienced HR Practitioner with a passion for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion? Can you engage with colleagues across the organisation to inspire others on a range of equalities and human rights related subjects? Are you committed to raising the profile of our EDI programme of work, to make a real difference for our employees? If this sounds like you, we would love to speak to you about our newly created EDI Engagement Lead role.
As a key member of the Workforce Planning, Quality and Projects team, the EDI Engagement Lead will also work as part of the newly developed Faculty of Learning, Leadership and Improvement and you will play a key part in supporting the delivery of the Trust’s EDI Strategy.
The focus of this role will be to plan, design, deliver and evaluate specialist learning and development courses, seminars, and networks, using the combined experiences of diverse staff groups to enhance and deliver effective learning.
The EDI Engagement Lead will support our commitment to create more inclusive workplace cultures, where difference is welcomed and celebrated through embedding equality and diversity into all relevant activity.
The EDI Engagement Lead will report in to the Employee Relations Manager from a line management perspective, but will equally take direction from the Faculty of Learning, Leadership and Improvement.
They will lead on various work streams and projects, which deliver a range of national and local initiatives, specific to the Trust’s EDI agenda and wider strategies. They will also work as part of the Trust’s Faculty of Learning, Leadership and Improvement to support quality improvement (QI) initiatives from an EDI perspective.
The post holder will provide managers with information, guidance, resources and sources of good practices to help them be at the forefront of equality and diversity initiatives and celebrating good practice.
At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.
We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition – a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards.
We recruit for values and “Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool”
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Your description of DT charges is just the same as paid antivirus software. There’s a cheap starting offer and then the prices go up and you have to check that there is no automatic renewal. However, £189 for a newspaper doesn’t seem unreasonable to me and the fact they will provide it for £49 probably shows the poor financial state of newspapers. I wonder how long some of the online news services will run. They are always asking for funding. It is the same with subscription entertainment channels and they are increasing in number. They are not all going to survive.
I often hear the comment that essential services should not be run privately because they don’t like the idea of profit. The jobs you describe are what happens when an organisation is not accountable to its customers and does not have to make a profit. Losses are not even considered by the management because the taxpayer will pick up the bill. There is no complaint by other staff because they don’t want to rock the boat. It’s the same with civil servants who still mostly “work” from home.
Went through the same thing with the DT six months ago. I suppose you can’t blame them for trying but it was never going to work with me – I’m too tight.
As for the NHS adverts I can’t even read them they annoy me so much, how much woke drivel can you put into one job advert? I do wish however they would call it DIE instead of EDI because they are killing patients by wasting money on these idiots instead of providing medical services. When a business is failing one of the first solutions is to go back to your core business – I’m not sure these morons could even say what the core business of the NHS is.
It’s not only wasting money in actual terms on the salaries for these idiots, it’s the squandering of clinicians’ working hours, when they are pulled off the wards for days at a time to attend “seminars” on how to interact with fellow clinicians they’ve been happily working with for years and with patients who don’t give a monkey’s what ethnicity or religion or preferred “gender” is the paramedic who picks them up off the road, the doctor who treats them in hospital, or the nurse who attends them on the ward. They do though greatly care how long they lie on the road awaiting the ambulance, how long they wait in pain in it in the hospital ambulance bay, then having finally been permitted through the doors into the hospital, how much longer await actual treatment. Anyone who has been inside a hospital this century cannot have failed to observe that the NHS is about the most ethnically and culturally diverse employer in the UK. Along with the States and most of Europe, we are sinking into a morass of “woke” lunacy, the end result of which will be to destroy health care, teaching and the maintenance of Law & Order throughout the West. Putin and Xi must be rubbing their hands with glee – when they’re not laughing their heads off.
This started longer ago than most people think. Before the proliferation of ‘management’ following the Sainsbury initiative (1970’s I think) senior nurses were removed from the bedside and put into ‘management’ positions. They were called Nursing Officers and later became “No 7’s”. Although some had useful roles, one position existed in the West Midlands for commissioning a new hospital. The title was “Nursing Officer Furniture” and the first example I can remember of things in the NHS going to pot.
And so it was that in the 1980′ and 90’s more and more daft people came into post to thwart the efforts of doctors, nurses, ancillary staff and professions allied to medicine who were directly involved in trying to make sick people get better. More and more hurdles were placed in their way by people who didn’t understand how healthcare worked. Worst of all, the emphasis of hierarchy changed with managers assuming greater status over people who actually did the work and who made life and death decisions. With that came jargon, waffle, ill thought out rules, procedures and regulations and even more managers were appointed to solve imaginary problems that hadn’t previously existed.
I used to run a critical care area in a district general hospital but I still had a hands on role at the coalface. Many of my colleagues however were in awe of this new pseudo-intellectual language spoken by these suited and clipboard wielding managers. But some of us realised quite early on that many or even most of these managers were not contributing anything to healthcare and in many cases, impeding it. For many years I used to communicate with managers in their own ‘management speak’ with passages and phrases generated by a management jargon computer program I’d written. “Integrated transitional capability” or “responsive third generation projection” are two examples. If you pressed a button which said “Click for more bollocks” you’d get longer phrases. No one ever queried my letters and at one point, I was even praised for my “management style”.
These job descriptions have obviously been written by people who, as well as being useless, have management jargon generators in their own heads. Carolyn is absolutely correct in describing them as idiots and morons. I wonder why the people who run the country can’t see this.
As Simon Webb of the History Debunked YouTube channel has pointed out, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is aimed exclusively at easing the paths of black people into training, education and jobs. This is because no other ethnicity has problems in realising the potential of its members. Indians and Chinese, for example, are better at gaining qualifications and realising their ambitions than white people. They never ask for any special considerations. – In short, pity for the less able is destroying the West by working against the most able who make things function properly.
AVG tries that trick every year and have done so for the last two years with me.. You will get e mails telling you when your renewal is due and a silly price. When you then offer to end your subscription around renewal time they give you the original price. It is obviously a well used scam.