The NHS is creating hundreds of new positions focused on diversity and inclusion, despite Government calls to reduce bureaucracy and increase efficiency in healthcare. The Telegraphhas the story.
Officials at NHS England have drawn up plans for three new departments called ‘Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’, ‘People and Culture’ and ‘People and Communities’, with 244 posts across the teams.
The Health Secretary is understood to be “frustrated” by the move and intends to summon health officials to demand explanations for the creation of large departments enforcing “woke doctrines”.
Ministers have repeatedly promised to crack down on bureaucracy, with NHS England ordered to cut its total workforce by up to 40%.
In March, Mr. Barclay wrote to the heads of 10 arms-length bodies, saying he believed that diversity and inclusion was “everyone’s responsibility and should be picked up through normal management processes and as a part of everyone’s role rather than through the use of external providers or discrete dedicated roles within organisations”.
It followed promises from predecessor Sajid Javid to stamp out “waste and wokery” in the health service.
However, proposals for the NHS’s new structure, to take effect from April 2024, show that it is seeking to create new directorates covering diversity, communities and culture.
Between them, the three departments will employ 244 people, including 177 staff earning at least £50,000 each.
Despite Mr. Barclay’s instructions to get rid of specific roles for diversity and inclusion, the units include a dedicated Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) department, with 50 employees, and staffing costs of £3 million.
The plans say the national EDI team will focus on establishing “policy, knowledge and expertise in areas other than race and disability”.
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Longest ever waiting lists, strikes because they say they don’t earn enough, GP’s who work on average 3 days per week, murderers employed as Nurses, Hospitals who kill a 19 year old girl rather than allow her to go to America for treatment she would have paid for and then shut the Parents up in disclosing the name of the Hospital and Medical staff involved. Plus of course the entire Covid charade, tik tok dancers, medals, Pots and Pans.
The entire NHS is having a laugh at our expense, Oh and let us not forget Women don’t exist and genital mutilation is ok as long as its called gender affirming care.
Get rid of it, sack the lot, allow Private competition, set up an insurance scheme regulated by the Government as in most of Europe. Watch how many of these whipped cream jobs exist then.
Socialised medicine that we all apparently love and won’t have a bad word said about, can never give us a Mercedes. All you will ever get is a second hand Polo if you are lucky. But we somehow accepted that state of affairs, but now our faces are truly being rubbed in the dirt. The second hand polo is turning into a mobility scooter.
despite Government calls to reduce bureaucracy and increase efficiency in healthcare
Oh FFS, despite nothing.
The government is completely behind this insanity.
The same way that it is behind net zero policy, including low emissions zones. We know because, you know, they’ve just created a new office: Minister for Net Zero.
Despite nothing. The government is totally behind and in favour of this.
I’m getting a bit fed up of the DS trying to make feeble excuses for these cretins.
That “Minister for Net Zero and Energy Security” used to be Grant Schapps. About a month ago he was asked on GB news if heat pumps that all politicians want to stuff down our throats or face jail are any good. —He replied “I don’t know”.. How can the Minister for Net Zero not know?——-You see it is just as you say. It doesn’t matter if they are any good or not (which they aren’t) These squirming eco parasites are going to force them on us anyway and if we don’t get one at great expense they will jail us. ——F..king insidious pieces of s..t
That said, the power and authority technically is invested in our parliament. So actually if they wanted to govern and pursue policies that were aligned with the beliefs and wishes of the population they could.
They don’t because they don’t want to. Because the cretins who make it there are pursuing personal careers, self interest and ideologies that have nothing to do with us. Perhaps not all of them but certainly the most senior ones with the most influence.
I refuse to let these people off on the basis that the power is now elsewhere. Screw that. If they really wanted to they could chart their own course. Our course.
As someone once pointed out “The best government is the one that governs the least”. Today our governments govern the most. They would regulate how we cut our toenails and have a special receptacle for the clippings, then fine us if we put the receptacle out on the wrong day….But Ssshhhh. I shouldn’t be giving them any ideas.
allofusarefat
1 year ago
Another desperate suggestion that “Perhaps the Tories will ride to the rescue and put a stop to all this nonsense”. Prepare for disappointment. They will carry on actively enabling the EDI garbage. And ESG. And KYC. And net zero. And gender reassignment. And ‘ever closer alignment with our friends and partners in Europe’. And the ideological penetration of every public institution. And overwhelming levels of immigration, legal and otherwise. And unprecedented levels of online censorship. And the implementation of tyrannical International health regulations. And the extension of anti-car legislation. And the wipe-out of your life savings. And meanwhile, look: Russell Brand! Bully dogs!
I’m sure the regulations to seize non-compliant homes as state assets, fit heat pumps by law, and then charge us for carrying on living in them (so much more humane and cost-effective than maintaining prison populations) are already being drafted, with our “Conservative” govt’s full approval.
You didn’t mention the billions of pounds of aid to Ukraine and the hollowing out of our defence capability to satisfy our NATO “partners’” desire for WW3.
I hope no health worker ever asks me (middle aged male) if I am pregnant. I hope they never ask me how I identify. I hope they never ask me from what minority I am from. ____-I will never participate in any of this bul..it, and the remarks I might make to them might not be very pretty.
The only ways to combat this cult are mass firings of anyone who’s not involved in the overall chain of physical patient health care, starting at the top. But this will never happen. The health secretary will simply remain a bit “frustrated” by this.
That sounds about right, the taxpayer pays and the NHS does what it likes, anything apparently except provide the service described by its core mission.
This announcement is blatant and so deliberately in our faces that the only conclusion is that it is deliberate. This corrupt and invalid government is seeking to enrage the woke populace and I suspect they are achieving that aim.
Absolutely, it’s a win-win tactic for them. Either we shrug and grudgingly accept it, in which case our inaction signals consent; or we kick off and give them the excuse of further repressive measures, justified as countering the rise of “far right disinformation which threatens democracy”. It’s taken several years, but I now firmly believe that this lot are capable of pretty much anything, and they can hardly contain their glee at being free from any moral or ethical constraint.
John Page
1 year ago
The NHS is a fortress. Only sackings will stop this kind of stuff.
Of course that won’t happen. That’s one reason why the NHS must be broken up.
Always reassuring to know how wisely our taxes are being spent!
Philip Ashby
1 year ago
As was highlighted in Nick Dixon’s latest podcast, the government introduced this legislation, so has the means to repeal it. Unfortunately, it is easier to use it as a scapegoat to hide behind
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Well done Steve, another taxpayer funded ‘service’ completely out of control.
NHS: spending your money to teach biological and medical untruths.
Should tell them that if they want EDI jobs then they should elect to be privatised.
Vote Conservative, get communism.
Longest ever waiting lists, strikes because they say they don’t earn enough, GP’s who work on average 3 days per week, murderers employed as Nurses, Hospitals who kill a 19 year old girl rather than allow her to go to America for treatment she would have paid for and then shut the Parents up in disclosing the name of the Hospital and Medical staff involved. Plus of course the entire Covid charade, tik tok dancers, medals, Pots and Pans.
The entire NHS is having a laugh at our expense, Oh and let us not forget Women don’t exist and genital mutilation is ok as long as its called gender affirming care.
Get rid of it, sack the lot, allow Private competition, set up an insurance scheme regulated by the Government as in most of Europe. Watch how many of these whipped cream jobs exist then.
Socialised medicine that we all apparently love and won’t have a bad word said about, can never give us a Mercedes. All you will ever get is a second hand Polo if you are lucky. But we somehow accepted that state of affairs, but now our faces are truly being rubbed in the dirt. The second hand polo is turning into a mobility scooter.
F in well said ! It’s a criminal enterprise at our expense !!
Oh FFS, despite nothing.
The government is completely behind this insanity.
The same way that it is behind net zero policy, including low emissions zones. We know because, you know, they’ve just created a new office: Minister for Net Zero.
Despite nothing. The government is totally behind and in favour of this.
I’m getting a bit fed up of the DS trying to make feeble excuses for these cretins.
That “Minister for Net Zero and Energy Security” used to be Grant Schapps. About a month ago he was asked on GB news if heat pumps that all politicians want to stuff down our throats or face jail are any good. —He replied “I don’t know”.. How can the Minister for Net Zero not know?——-You see it is just as you say. It doesn’t matter if they are any good or not (which they aren’t) These squirming eco parasites are going to force them on us anyway and if we don’t get one at great expense they will jail us. ——F..king insidious pieces of s..t
What does our ‘government’ govern, exactly?
Our ‘government’ is no longer based in London.
That seems quite apparent.
That said, the power and authority technically is invested in our parliament. So actually if they wanted to govern and pursue policies that were aligned with the beliefs and wishes of the population they could.
They don’t because they don’t want to. Because the cretins who make it there are pursuing personal careers, self interest and ideologies that have nothing to do with us. Perhaps not all of them but certainly the most senior ones with the most influence.
I refuse to let these people off on the basis that the power is now elsewhere. Screw that. If they really wanted to they could chart their own course. Our course.
As someone once pointed out “The best government is the one that governs the least”. Today our governments govern the most. They would regulate how we cut our toenails and have a special receptacle for the clippings, then fine us if we put the receptacle out on the wrong day….But Ssshhhh. I shouldn’t be giving them any ideas.
Another desperate suggestion that “Perhaps the Tories will ride to the rescue and put a stop to all this nonsense”. Prepare for disappointment. They will carry on actively enabling the EDI garbage. And ESG. And KYC. And net zero. And gender reassignment. And ‘ever closer alignment with our friends and partners in Europe’. And the ideological penetration of every public institution. And overwhelming levels of immigration, legal and otherwise. And unprecedented levels of online censorship. And the implementation of tyrannical International health regulations. And the extension of anti-car legislation. And the wipe-out of your life savings. And meanwhile, look: Russell Brand! Bully dogs!
Intense comment———I hope you have enough saved up for your new heat pump or face a year in jail
I’m sure the regulations to seize non-compliant homes as state assets, fit heat pumps by law, and then charge us for carrying on living in them (so much more humane and cost-effective than maintaining prison populations) are already being drafted, with our “Conservative” govt’s full approval.
You didn’t mention the billions of pounds of aid to Ukraine and the hollowing out of our defence capability to satisfy our NATO “partners’” desire for WW3.
I hope no health worker ever asks me (middle aged male) if I am pregnant. I hope they never ask me how I identify. I hope they never ask me from what minority I am from. ____-I will never participate in any of this bul..it, and the remarks I might make to them might not be very pretty.
The only ways to combat this cult are mass firings of anyone who’s not involved in the overall chain of physical patient health care, starting at the top. But this will never happen. The health secretary will simply remain a bit “frustrated” by this.
That sounds about right, the taxpayer pays and the NHS does what it likes, anything apparently except provide the service described by its core mission.
This announcement is blatant and so deliberately in our faces that the only conclusion is that it is deliberate. This corrupt and invalid government is seeking to enrage the woke populace and I suspect they are achieving that aim.
Absolutely, it’s a win-win tactic for them. Either we shrug and grudgingly accept it, in which case our inaction signals consent; or we kick off and give them the excuse of further repressive measures, justified as countering the rise of “far right disinformation which threatens democracy”. It’s taken several years, but I now firmly believe that this lot are capable of pretty much anything, and they can hardly contain their glee at being free from any moral or ethical constraint.
The NHS is a fortress. Only sackings will stop this kind of stuff.
Of course that won’t happen. That’s one reason why the NHS must be broken up.
Each day the BullSH1T just gets worse !
Always reassuring to know how wisely our taxes are being spent!
As was highlighted in Nick Dixon’s latest podcast, the government introduced this legislation, so has the means to repeal it. Unfortunately, it is easier to use it as a scapegoat to hide behind