NHS bosses are ignoring orders from Ministers to scrap diversity jobs by hiring dozens of new equalities staff on up to £91,000 a year under Labour. The Telegraph has the story.
A new analysis found that 35 equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) roles have been advertised since Sir Keir Starmer’s Government took power.
All but six of the positions allowed staff to work from home and some posts offered salaries of more than £80,000.
The 35 EDI roles advertised since July 5th are the equivalent of a diversity job every single week under Labour.
On Wednesday, Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, said the NHS must go “back to basics” and vowed not to let “ideologues” stand in the way of improving its performance.
Steve Barclay ordered NHS chiefs not to create specialist inclusion roles in 2023 during his time as Tory Health Secretary but the health service refused to follow his instructions.
Mr Streeting has not reversed the order, speaking out last year about doing “daft things” in the name of diversity, but the NHS continues to argue diversity jobs are “important” in achieving good outcomes for patients.
An analysis by Mr Barclay of the posts advertised in recent months found that the head of EDI at NHS North East London was advertised at a salary of between £80,025 and £91,336.
The advert stated: “You will be an exceptional leader with the ability to drive forward our EDI agenda and support us to develop a culture of belonging.”
NHS North East London went on to say it was “essential” for the successful applicant to have “significant experience of a senior equalities role” at a large and complex organisation.
Applicants for the head of inclusion post at the NHS Coventry and Warwickshire integrated care board were offered as much as £85,601.
The online advert said the successful applicant “must have a genuine passion for reducing inequalities and driving social inclusion”.
Those applying to become NHS England’s EDI lead – a job with a salary of up to £81,138 – were told they only needed to be in the office two days a week.
“Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person,” the advert read. …
Mr Barclay told the Telegraph: “I’ve long tried to bring an end to dedicated EDI roles in the health service.
“They don’t represent value for money for taxpayers, divert resources from frontline needs, and seem more interested in pushing highly politicised ideology than actually improving care.
“Bureaucrats did everything they could to frustrate my DEI crackdown and now under Labour they seem free to recruit even more on eye-watering salaries, whilst at the same time experts have called the emergency care on offer to patients degrading and dangerous.”
The question is, if Government Ministers aren’t in charge of the NHS, who is?
Worth reading in full.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
Just evil.
Their only job is the eradication of the Christian ethos that founded medical care in Britain.
Concluding paragraph to the original Telegraph article:
An NHS spokesman said, “The specialist skills needed to address equality, diversity, and inclusion in NHS organisations remain important to support legal compliance, boost staff retention and ultimately, ensure the best possible outcomes for patients.”
State-funded weasels. To be triaged for urgent surgery by Dr Guillotine.
“To be triaged for urgent surgery by Dr Guillotine.”
Poetry.
Are you sure that beheading a EDI expert will damage vital organ? Better cut their a***s off, that will at least stop them from working in their chosen profession.
:->
“but the NHS continues to argue diversity jobs are “important” in achieving good outcomes for patients.”
I have generally found that “good outcomes” from the NHS are only possible when they begin with access to a feckin doctor. Unfortunately, access to which, using the surgery I have is friggin impossible.
Gosh, what a quaint notion, that “access to doctors” might improve outcomes!
Are you sure a look at the “LGBT+ History Month” board wouldn’t sort you right out?
With diversity you might be able to get access to a witch doctor.
Well said! Practitioners of voodoo and believers in alchemy are under-represented in the medical profession. Thank goodness for DEI!
“Compliance” now that’s a word I never thought would ever boil my pizz but it does !!!
If they refuse to comply, arrest them for malfeasance in public office.
I was down in that London today. Quite a few people on the trains and tubes and buses and out and about with face nappies on. We don’t really see that where I live. Picture reminded me.
No matter how hard we try and how much we scream, the woke are in charge and they ain’t going without a fight.
WTH is a ‘National NHS Muslim Network’?
”I’m old enough to remember when the NHS was simply a health service. Back in those days you could get a GP appointment the same day after one successful phone call. That said, there was little Islamic advice to enrich our dull hospital visits, so it wasn’t all jam.”
https://x.com/PWestoff/status/1884658093583118369
sack the person who authorised the role, sack the manager of the department who requested the role, and of course get rid of the individual filling the role.
And then reclaim whatever pay and perks they may have earned while in situ as it was clearly paid ultra vires.
And in their place you can hire a chimpanzee to mop the floors.
It demonstrates that, like other public sector organisations, R’NHS isn’t short of money, just motivation to spend it wisely. My own council, in one of the poorer parts of the UK, spends £500K annually on DEI and “climate change”, plus a £50m! capital budget, but can’t afford to grit the roads and pavements properly, hence the recent chaos and A&E admission increase. Bin collections are still erratic.
That isn’t really the question. We all know the bureaucrats are in charge of the NHS. That is explicitly true: almost all the NHS consists of “agencies” and “trusts”. Politicians always talk as if “independence” from political authority is a good thing – and then take potshots when an independent organisation ignores their instructions.
Mr Barclay, if you don’t like an NHS composed of trusts and agencies, why did your party create that NHS? If your party ever returns to government (highly unlikely, but not impossible), will you move to give Whitehall control of the NHS again?
Having just spent 7 days in our local Hospital with my dementia affected Cancer suffering husband who was being treated for Sepsis, I can hand on heart say that Diversity, Equality and Inclusion was never a consideration for us or any staff, from cleaners to consultants. It’s a minority driven nonsense.
We all know how white-centric the NHS is, with hardly any ethnic minority doctors or nurses, so we quite clearly need lots of diversity personnel to help balance the staff ratios.
The reason for that is hidden in your statement: It is self-fulfilling that their are “hardly any” ethnic minorities, simply because they are minorities. To have an equal number of ethnic minority staff to the number of ethnic majority staff would be illogical as the minority would be over-represented.
What is more important, that your NHS Trust hospital delivers efficient, safe and quality care provided by doctors and nurses who have been carefully selected based on their credentials and experience… or that is has an equitable distribution of skin colours, religions, genders and sexuality?
That’s a difficult one!