David Craig, on October 17th, 2022Monday/ Tuesday blog
Killed by the diversity industry?
In my Thursday/ Friday blog, I pointed out that the only ethnic group under-represented in our ‘world-beating’ NHS were white ethnic Brits. White ethnic Brits make up 85.6% of the working-age population and 86% of the total population. Yet they only account for 77.9% of the NHS’s 1.3 million employees.
The under-representation of whites is even worse when you look at the ethnicities of NHS doctors. Whites account for only 56.2% of senior doctors, 59.9% of consultants and an embarrassingly small 37.4% of specialty doctors. Using these figures, I gave some examples of current job vacancies for Diversity, Inclusion and Equality managers and I questioned why the NHS was still hiring ever more of these wastes of skin.
At the time, I didn’t know that the Taxpayers Alliance had just released some research on the numbers and cost of Diversity, Inclusion and Equality managers in the NHS. The Taxpayers Alliance estimates that there are around 812 diversity managers in the NHS costing us £40.7m. But I believe the figures from the Taxpayers Alliance only include the direct employment costs – salary, social costs and possibly pension contributions – of these useless, utterly superfluous people. What the Taxpayers Alliance doesn’t take into account are the additional costs of this army of woke garbage – office costs, administrative support and so on. But the greatest additional cost will be the amount of real employees’ time these fools take up with pointless training sessions in Critical Race Theory and Gender Recognition Sensitivity Training and whatever other garbage they dream up to justify their pointless, parasitic existences.
A simple rule of thumb would suggest that the real cost of each of the purveyors of this diversity nonsense is probably around twice their salaries. So they are actually costing the NHS over £80m a year – a cost that is increasing as ever more are hired in spite of the NHS claiming (as usual) that it’s in crisis.
Oh, and in case you weren’t aware, the UK has a far higher number (more than twice as many in most cases) of these worthless people per 10,000 employees than any other developed country:
This is complete madness and needs to stop.
So, when you hear the professional bed-wetters and shroud-wavers howling and moaning that millions will die if any cuts are made to the sacred NHS budget, remember that firing these 800+ pointless diversity nincompoops could save the NHS more than £80m a year and probably result in freeing up more time for frontline medical staff to look after patients rather than being stuck in woke propaganda indoctrination sessions.
Oh, and while our leaders are thinking about firing all these diversity idiots, how about stopping all NHS translation services? If people can’t be bothered to learn English, why should they get free treatment at taxpayers’ expense? That would save another £66m a year.
And then there’s the £57m spent by NHS organisations last year on communications – including 1,000 communications officers – a 13% rise from £50.4m the previous year. NHS hospitals have increased their spending on spin doctors despite waiting lists hitting record highs. So, there’s another pile of nonsense that should be axed.
Short of money? No, the NHS is drowning in our money, but chooses to waste massive amounts on irrelevant rubbish.
Hey, I’ve just woken up and have already found £200m in annual savings the NHS could start making immediately. That could help cut some waiting lists or save a few more heart attack victims. I could probably find a couple of hundred million more in savings by lunchtime.
Radiators and drains?
There’s a simplistic theory that there are two main types of employee in public-sector organisations. Let’s call them ‘radiators’ and ‘drains’.
The ‘radiators’ try to fulfil the purpose of the organisation – looking after patients (NHS), reducing crime (police), defending the country (armed forces), providing public services (local councils) etc. They can be called ‘radiators’ because they contribute something.
The ‘drains’, on the other hand, see the organisation as just a mechanism for their own self-advancement, self-enrichment and accumulation of power and status. The ‘drains’ drain the organisation’s resources as they use them to advance themselves rather than meet the organisation’s goals.
While the radiators are mostly focused outwards on the organisation’s goals, the drains focus inwards on internal politics and their own personal advancement. And so in every organisation, the drains will always eventually rise to the top levels, seize power and use the organisation for their own personal ambitions or political ends.
Hopefully the three above examples of massive waste – more diversity nonsense, unjustifiable translation services to prove how ‘inclusive’ we are and rising communication costs – all of which have nothing to do with efficiently supplying a health service show that the drains are now running and ruining the NHS for their own benefit.
So, if you’re one of the seven million or so people waiting for NHS treatment, you are hopefully coming to realise that the wonderfully diverse, inclusive and equality-obsessed, woke NHS now exists mostly for the benefit of its drains and really doesn’t give a damn about you. It just wants your money to fuel its leaders’ careers, self-importance and financial well-being as well as maybe netting them a few gongs and possibly even a well-padded seat in the Lords.
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Outrageous. As if we were not already suffering an acute shortage of nurses nationwide, those who possess much needed medical and nursing skills are regularly pulled off their clinical tasks for hours – even days – at a time to attend “Diversity” courses run by the wastes of skin you refer to. Any time now Junior Doctors (that’s anyone below Consultant level) will probably decide, in desperation at the rotten pay increases they have been offered, to strike. And who can blame them? Chronically overworked because there are insufficient doctors to fill vacancies, or because cut-backs in spending have been implemented by Trusts, they are weary, disillusioned, and regularly expected to work above their “pay grade” – i.e. to assume clinical responsibilities beyond their current level of experience. Members of the public who scream that doctors are well paid need to be reminded that on average a doctor is around 24/25 years old on qualification and unless he or she has been funded by a wealthy family – which most are not – starts professional life with tuition and accommodation debts of around £80,000. Knowing all this, the Government evidently sanctions utterly unnecessary “Diversity Manager” appointments at salaries each of which could fund 4 or 5 experienced nurses or 2 or 3 recently qualified doctors. Except that there aren’t any more newly qualified doctors of course, because we aren’t training sufficient. As a nation we are stealing other countries’ doctors, which is why there are so many non-white doctors in the NHS. In conclusion, I listened yesterday to a R4 programme examining how foreign doctors, in particular Nigerians, are being cajoled by UK private health care companies, on the promise of better working conditions, to come to work in the UK, for them only to find once here that they are disgracefully exploited and overworked. If they complain or ask for time off their pay is withheld. Lesson: don’t pay thousands to have your surgery in a private hospital where, should you suffer a post-op emergency, your survival may well depend on a well-intentioned, adequately-qualified, but totally exhausted and sleep-deprived foreign doctor.
Does it really matter about the ethnicity if the NHS staff are doing a good job? Who is responsible for the chaos? The NHS managers or the government, and how much of the equality and diversity policy came from the EU? Was “This England” representative of events during the pandemic? If so anything connected with the government and the NHS is best avoided.
What bothers me about the NHS is how the highly trained doctors seem unable to have any influence on the organisation. But perhaps it is not surprising when we seen the lies from professionals about climate science and on the effectiveness and safety of the Covid vaccines. The same can be said about National Grid. How has it allowed the grid system to become so expensive and unreliable? The government has a big influence because of regulation. We know with health regulators that they are now mainly funded by Big Pharma and are not independent.
There is no doubt that the health services provide a good service to many people. My view about any organisation is that it is how they respond when things go wrong that show how good they are. We can see how bad the NHS has become without having any treatment. Private care is not without its problems. They don’t deal with emergencies and they will refuse to treat complex issues and often do not have the facilities to deal with some emergencies, resulting in emergency transfers to the NHS. The other issue is that consultants are independent and the hospitals do not accept responsibility so when things go wrong nobody wants to be responsible. It is made worse because the official complaint procedure using ISCAS says the hospital is responsible for dealing with complaints resulting in admin staff dealing with medical issues that they don’t understand.
There seems to be a general attitude in the country that everything should be perfect and no fault should be admitted. We can see this with vaccine damage compensation and the difficulties people face and the way the police are treating people. The politicians are too concerned about scoring points over other parties and winning the next election. Our lives do not matter to politicians and that applies to all the state run organisations but they also continually interfere in all aspects of our life through laws and taxation. The utter incompetence of all of them from every party is now exposed.
Stonewall and Mermaids seem to have infiltrated ever major institution and company in this country including our utterly useless government. How this was ever allowed to happen is a mystery but if these 2 “charities” can be shutdown permanently perhaps these Diversity et all management jobs would start to disappear.
Do not forget the climate change officers within the NHS.There is another slice of totally wasteful expenditure which has nothing to do with healthcare.We could actually be a relatively prosperous and economically sound country if we got rid of all this dead wood.The same is replicated throughout the public services and even private industry and commerce has been infiltrated,no wonder productivity is so poor.Can you see any of the present political parties having the guts or the wit to tackle this? Only the reality of a cold winter plus economic collapse might see a forced change but it would not be pretty.Cold turkey time,chickens coming home to roost,like it or not.