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?
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Horrible indeed. Will they, and future generations, ever forgive us?
Given the enthusiasm for censorship and control, future generations will know the officially approved version glossing over all of this. Anything else will become a conspiracy theory or people will be too scared to speak of it for fear of repercussions.
Daily Sceptic deserve a lot of credit for publishing this sort of analysis. Bell and Maccarthy should be praised for writing it.
it cannot be easy to arrive at conclusions like this. Heart wrenching.
One day someone will explain why it is that those who are supposed to be compassionate and empathetic to the suffering of children e.g. those who work for children’s welfare organisations and institutions, are very often the least compassionate and the least empathetic. Excellent article.
I keep asking myself whether I could have done more to stop the whole Covid madness?
I wrote, talked, went to meetings, gave financial support, went on protests.
Did this help?
Clearly not enough to stop this madness early.
Maybe helped to make it stop a little sooner than it would have otherwise?
It made me feel quite small, without a loud voice.
What can we learn from this?
Because we need to learn fast.
What works to stop this woke train, climate train, vaccine train?
Same here. I emailed my MP many times; met with friends who were less panic-struck; talked to people; joined SitP; went on one protest (rail fare too much for more than that); gave donations to sceptic organisations; refused the jab and the coercion.
I don’t know if I could have done more. It’s a tragedy that so many meekly accepted the tyranny.
What THEY (not we) did to children was evil and unforgivable.
I don’t have young children or grandchildren – and I will never forgive them for what they did.
Fortunately, my two sons were adult. I had brought them up as a single mum post divorce and they are happy, successful young men. I can’t think how many times during the Covid Terrorism I thanked God that they weren’t teenagers confined at home and isolated from their friends and social activities, because I firmly believe that one of us would be dead ….. probably me.