David Craig, on April 15th, 2024Monday-Tuesday blog
Our collapsing NHS is always complaining that it doesn’t have enough of our money. But now it seems to be going one step further – some hospitals are claiming they will go bankrupt unless we pour ever more money into our pathetic excuse for a health service.
There was an article in the Sunday Times at the weekend about Guy’s Hospital in London. The article headline screamed: “Guy’s Hospital in need of bailout”. In the article we were told that: “Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust told staff that it may need to ask ministers for a loan to cover its day-to-day spending unless it could get control of its £84 million deficit”.
Given Guy’s apparently dire financial situation, you’d imagine Guy’s management would have a laser-like focus on ensuring that the money they had was directed to patient care and not wasted on irrelevant woke nonsense. I decided to test this by Googling “Guy’s Hospital” and “Diversity, Equality and Inclusion managers“. To my astonishment (not), I found that Guy’s Hospital had at least two, very-highly-paid (IMHO) wothhless parasites employed to promote the DIE (Diversity, Inclusion and Equality) hogwash.
First I found that Guy’s Hospital had a Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. I don’t know how much this important individual is paid. But there was also an ‘Associate Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’ on a salary of £78,163 to £88,884 a year. So, I imagine that the Associate Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’s boss – the Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion – must be geting somewhere in the region of £100,000 a year.
The job specification for the Associate Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion stated: “The Associate Director will also be responsible for advising the Director for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion regarding equality and diversity issues, including changes to legislation, publication of relevant Government and Department of Health documents, good practice.” Forgive my ignorance, but I would have thought that, if the Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is pocketing around £100,000 a year of our money, then this Director shouldn’t need someone on a salary of £78,163 to £88,884 a year to advise them “regarding equality and diversity issues, including changes to legislation, publication of relevant Government and Department of Health documents, good practice.”
But hey, what do I know? I’ve never had the pleasure of working for our completely useless, self-serving, bureauratic, increasingly-woke, money-squandering NHS.
Of course, I realise that p*ssing away a few hundred thousand pounds on diversity rubbish isn’t going to make any difference to Guy’s £84 million deficit. But it does suggest that Guy’s management have forgotten that they’re there to serve patients and not to indulge in uber-liberal, woke onanism.
Here, for your enlightenment and entertainment is the job ad for the Associate Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion – the person being paid a salary of £78,163 to £88,884 a year.
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This is what happens with state ownership – there is no financial discipline because the hospital knows that debt will be covered by the government, meaning the taxpayer. Many councils are in the same situation. The government allows it because it doesn’t care about us. It doesn’t even need to increase taxes or issue more government bonds to raise money. All it has to do now is to print more money.
The hospitals should be allowed to fail. All the assets are still there and can be bought by private health care providers.
The same situation exists with Thames Water. The are effectively begging for the government to bail them out so that the shares still have some value. It should be allowed to go bankrupt, the shareholders should get nothing and the assets sold.
Again, all true. I feel the NHS is in business to enrich the higher management with no accountability to there paymasters, the taxpayer.