The already 3,000-employee Care Quality Commission (CQC) is hiring. Hopefully you all know who the CQC is. On its website it explains:
CQC is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England.
We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and we encourage care services to improve.
We monitor, inspect and regulate services and publish what we find. Where we find poor care, we will use our powers to take action.
So whom do you think the CQC is hiring? Doctors, nurses and healthcare workers with experience to check on the quality of care in our hospitals and care homes? That wouldn’t be too smart as we already have a shortage of doctors and nurses and in care homes a recent health minister decided that any care worker refusing the ‘miracle vaccines’ should be fired. I believe this led to around 40,000 care workers leaving the profession. This then led to a lack of care facilities for people ready to leave hospitals and thus a massive increase in so-called ‘bed-blockers’.
Hey, I’ve just had a crazy idea. From what little I understand, many people in the medical and care-home sector retire early due to health problems – back pain is, I believe, a major issue from constantly having to lift often gravitationally-challenged (a.k.a. fat) people. What if many of these early retirees still wanted to make a contribution? What if they missed the company of like-minded colleagues and would actually rather work than sit at home? Wouldn’t they make ideal CQC employees given they would have spent their working lives in hospitals and care homes? Surely these would be the kind of people the CQC would be looking to hire?
But no, the CQC has other views on its personnel needs. So the CQC is currently looking for a Diversity and Inclusion Officer. The description of the job is quite short:
The role of the Diversity and Inclusion (D and I) Officer will be of critical support to develop and deliver the new Diversity and Inclusion strategy, as well as existing key projects within the Diversity and Inclusion team.
This work is core delivery within the Human Resources (HR) Business Plan and People plan, and will enable colleagues to effectively deliver the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) strategic priorities.
The benefits the lucky candidate will receive is much longer:
- This role will provide experience in organisational change, Human Resources, and working with senior colleagues. We want to support you to succeed and be your absolute best, with opportunities for training and development, along with the support of experienced managers and mentors.
- Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through generous annual leave (starting at 27 days and rising with service to 32.5 days, plus eight Bank Holidays), a cycle to work scheme, discounted gym vouchers and access to a free employee assistance service 24 hours a day.
- We understand the importance of financial health and offer membership of the NHS pension scheme, contributing about 14% of basic salary. You will also have access to discounts for supermarkets, high street stores, electronics, fleet cars, plus an internal reward scheme with vouchers!
- We aim to make working at the CQC a positive experience and we role model [sic] a representative culture of the communities we serve. We therefore support an inclusive environment where colleagues feel empowered to bring their best self to work, with a variety of staff networks that facilitate this; the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ Equality Network, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and Gender Equality network.
Apparently the CQC believes that a Diversity and Inclusion Officer is just what this country needs in order to vastly improve our medical and social care.
But if you can’t get this important position as Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the CQC, don’t worry. Throughout our useless, collapsing NHS there is a massive hiring spree for similarly utterly pointless people.
Just one of many current examples is the NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit, which is hiring an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Board Adviser. Here’s part of the job description:
When it comes to being more inclusive good, is not good enough.
Midlands and Lancashire CSU (MLCSU) have created this new role to support us to deliver our Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) agenda. We recognise that we need to improve our performance in this area and are looking for a Board member to support the holistic development and implementation of our EDI strategy and the realisation of our ambition to create a dynamic culture that supports all our people to achieve.
The post holder will be an active member of the Board and lead advisor to the Board regarding Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, playing the role of a critical friend. They will help ensure that EDI is central to the development of our core business strategy and the positioning of the MLCSU in the evolving NHS landscape. In addition, they will provide advice and guidance to a range of stakeholders including the Managing Director, Executive Directors, staff network chairs and EDI Leads.
In Wales, the CWM Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is hiring an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead. Here’s the job description for this vital person with a salary of £48,526-£54,619 a year:
This post is integral to supporting Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB) in its ambitions to address structural and systemic inequity. By promoting, championing and leading on the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) portfolio from the lens of cultural and behavioural change as well as systems and processes across CTMUHB; this post will ensure CTMUHB continues to work towards equity for staff, patients and service users. You will lead on and coordinate the development of strategies and policies/processes in collaboration with partners to support governance as well as cultural change in developing an inclusive culture within CTMUHB where everyone feels that they belong.
You will support the culture of Belonging and Inclusion with CTMUHB with your Organisational Development colleagues; role modelling inclusive thinking and practice. You will support the continuous development of the infrastructure for staff networks and ensure minoritised groups have their voices heard; while supporting the Network Chairs to be the intermediary between minoritised groups and the CTMUHB whilst supporting leaders and the wider workforce to be accountable around initiatives that address inequity.
The CWM Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is also looking for an Equality Diversity & Inclusion Admin Coordinator, salary £23,949-£26,282 a year. This obviously necessary individual will:
Provide a comprehensive service to support the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB) in the organisation and planning of duties and workload, which supports service delivery. The post holder will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion function and will ensure that the business is managed effectively and efficiently.
We keep being told that the NHS is in crisis and that it needs more and more and ever more money. Doctors, nurses, ambulance workers have been striking for more pay. Yet the NHS is wasting millions or even tens of millions (one estimate puts the figure at £40 million a year) on completely pointless woke, DIE (Diversity, Inclusion and Equality) staff who not only contribute absolutely nothing to our healthcare but actually impede the people doing the real work.
The only crisis at our collapsing NHS is a crisis of incompetence – a crisis of around 35,000 often incompetent managers who haven’t the slightest clue about what they’re paid so generously to do.
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It’s difficult to compare between countries
Sweden is a liberal democracy which places a strong emphasis on individual freedom, personal dignity and respect for human rights. It is unfair to compare it with a medical-fascist terror state that imprisons without trial its entire citizenry such as the UK.
That said – if you do compare there’s no difference anyway. Makes you wonder if it was worth it
Hmm…
Inter-country comparisons are fraught with impossibilities, as you say.
But the massive weight of evidence is that lockdowns are totally useless on the benefit side, but have massive downsides.
The only thing that keeps the argument going is the universal arse-covering exercise from those who decided to make patently wrong, insupportable decisions.
This is an important graph. But in fairness it has to be said that Sweden took more measures than just handwashing. I spent a week in Stockholm last October, and there were other measures such as social distancing (lots of queues outside banks etc) and restrictions on attendance at live performances. But the most significant difference over UK was that there were no masks and absolutely nothing was done to instil terror in the population. In fact quite the reverse. People were treated as adults, informed and confident. I suspect the real value of the Swedish policy will only become clear in the next year or two.
Good summary of the main differentiating points.
But the key for suppression was not just closing the borders early and the geographic possibility to do so, but to keep them closed.
And that now likely for good.
Poland and the Czech Republic also closed early and had a benign 1st wave, but once they reopened, the second wave hit them even harder.
As predicted by proper epidimiologists like Gupta.
Sweden’s second wave of deaths since the summer is now smaller than formerly feted Germany’s.
Going for suppression after the virus has become endemic is just ridiculous, destructive and nihilistic torture, a fight against windmills, Mrs Sturgeon et.al..
As I understand it, in the middle of March 2020 when the first Covid death happened in a Nordic country (can’t remember which one it was, but I don’t think it was Sweden) all the Nordic countries scrambled to test: in most of them the numbers were low enough to make contact tracing a realistic possibility, but Sweden wasn’t so lucky.
Sequencing analysis later showed what went wrong with Sweden: while all the Nordic countries had done a half-decent job containing introductions of the virus from Italy and Austria (the initial concern countries in Europe), Stockholm’s unusually late school half-term break had resulted in it being massively seeded from the UK and New York City (which weren’t then considered to be dangerous areas).
Note that Sweden’s first wave was far more concentrated on Stockholm than its second wave was.
“… when researchers have analysed European countries and US states in a systematic way, they haven’t found evidence that lockdowns substantially reduce deaths from COVID-19.”
It’s worse than that – the correlation actually appears to be negative in certain analyses.
If and when true data in the significant spikes in non-Covid deaths are ever prominently published, many more world inhabitants may (belatedly) realize how many “excess” deaths the lockdown policies caused (or at least significantly contributed to). These statistics could/would/might flip the narrative on who actually has “blood on their hands” … as plenty of experts predicted this spike in preventable deaths, or deaths that would have been much less likely to occur absent the lockdowns.
I did a mortality comparison by age and race in America (as of November 2020 statistics). I mentioned Sweden’s example. I sent my analysis to many news organizations but none published it. Here’s what I wrote then. In this excerpt, I simply pinpoint WHO is/was dying in Sweden:
Sweden has become famous (or infamous) for taking the road less travelled with its contrarian COVID policies. A common critique of Sweden’s non-lockdown and non-mask approach is that Sweden’s death rates (on a per capita basis) are much higher than its neighbors of Denmark, Norway and Finland. This is true.
However, if one simply looks at Swedish mortality rates by age cohorts, the criticism appears to be agenda-driven.
Through November 3rd, Sweden had recorded 5,997 COVID deaths. Of this number, 89 percent had occurred among those 70 and over … and 38.7 percent (nearly 40 percent) had occurred among residents aged 90 or older!
In Sweden, the majority of COVID deaths have occurred among the segment of the population that has already reached or exceeded the country’s life expectancy of 82.3 years. As has been the case in many countries, in Sweden half of all deaths have occurred among residents who were living in a “care” home (nursing home).
Through Nov. 3rd, Sweden (which has a population of 10.23 million) had recorded only two COVID deaths of citizens under the age of 20. Of Sweden’s 5,997 COVID deaths, only 76 (1.27 percent) had occurred in the population under the age of 50.
“ contrarian COVID policies” Well, contrary to the CCP-inspired lunacy adopted in 2020, but in line with established pandemic wisdom followed by most countries since more or less forever.
Also consider that the elderly in Sweden can, if necessary, get up to eight visits a day by a carer in their own homes. So by the time they move to a care home they are likely to be very vulnerable.
IIRC almost all the excess deaths among over-70s in Sweden were among people who either lived in nursing homes or were dependent on home carers (and presumably were infected by said carers).
This makes sense, as people who are old enough to be retired but who are still able to live independently probably find it easier to self-isolate than other members of the population.
Regardless of whether or not Sweden’s lack of lockdown caused those extra deaths, no country would have locked down to prevent that number of deaths. The predictions for the non-lockdown case, which were used to bounce countries into lockdown, were an order of magnitude too high.
Just look at Sweden’s economy! It has not been decimated
Agreed. Nor have their elderly been left to die frightened and alone. children haven’t been traumatised because they, unlike ours, were at school throughout. No doctors there talking about a crisis in psychological disorders because of lockdown either.
family and friends have been able to meet, have coffee, meals etc and do what people do, support and love each other.