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NHS Spends More Than £8.2 Million on Woke Non-Jobs

by Toby Young
27 December 2022 11:00 AM

NHS trusts are spending more than £8.2 million a year on equity, diversity and inclusion officers. The Telegraph has more.

The figures, revealed through Freedom of Information requests, relate to just 70 of the 125 acute hospital trusts across England – suggesting the scale of the spending could be far higher.

It comes after job adverts posted by 16 trusts in one month alone revealed they would cost the taxpayer more than £700,000 annually.

The new data show that in 2022, the 70 trusts are employing 187 people in equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) roles – almost three per employer.

In total, the 187 jobs are costing the NHS up to £8,220,783 a year.

It comes after the NHS warned it was facing a £7 billion funding shortfall and could be forced to cut services due to rising inflation and the cost of this year’s pay award.

The Government subsequently announced an extra £6.6 billion of funding over the next two years in the Autumn Statement for the NHS. But experts warned the increase would not account for rising inflation and other unexpected costs.

Some of the hospital trusts which replied to requests admitted they were employing up to 10 people in diversity jobs.

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has nine staff working in EDI roles, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust has nine filled and one currently advertised, while the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust has at least nine full-time employees in such roles.

The three trusts’ spending on the EDI roles accounts for 16 per cent (up to £1.3 million) of the total.

King’s College Hospital also has the highest paid individual employee in a diversity role, with one member of staff earning up to £128,600 a year.

It comes after Steve Barclay, the Health Secretary, last month ordered a crackdown on diversity jobs in the NHS amid fears “woke box ticking” is costing taxpayers millions of pounds.

Mr Barclay is alarmed at the “spiralling cost” of the jobs, it was reported last month.

A Whitehall source told the Sun: “Steve is very concerned about the spiralling cost of these jobs. The numbers are clearly getting out of hand.

“Patients want every penny of NHS cash to go into fixing the service, not hiking the management payroll and increasing the burden of woke box ticking.

“We need to look out whether we are tackling inequality in healthcare the most effective way. Ministers will be reviewing this spending urgently.”

Meanwhile, the health service is battling to bring down a record backlog of 7.2 million people waiting to start treatment.

Commenting on the latest figures, John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “Taxpayers will be shocked at the scale of the diversity industry in the NHS.

“While patients battle for every appointment and operation, woke warriors consume ever more resources. Ministers need to get a grip and ensure that funds are directed towards frontline roles.”

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press: Intermediaries are charging half a billion pounds a year to provide the NHS with locum nurses and doctors. The Daily Mail has more.

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Boomer Bloke
Boomer Bloke
2 years ago

It’s like the civil service, local government and the EU. These people (yes these people) are rewarded for building empires, overspending on budgets and creating waste. We have seen how the civil service do want they want, not what they have been directed to do, or what their mission demands, a good case in point being the miss-named Border Force. Meanwhile the taxpayer is landed with an ever growing tax bill and longer waits for treatment or appointments. The social contract is well and truly broken. Beyond repair.

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For a fist full of roubles
2 years ago

Re Stop Press, I have never understood why the NHS has not set up its own locum services, if necessary paying locum staff exactly the same as the private sector but ploughing the profits back into the NHS. It would at the very least drive the private services to drop prices or disappear from the market place.

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Dr G
Dr G
2 years ago

Does hark back to “Yes, Minister”.
The perfect hospital with no patients.
A prescient series in so many ways.

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RTSC
RTSC
2 years ago

This is a consequence of the Equality Act. The Government could stop it tomorrow by repealing, or at the very least, amending the Act.

But it won’t. It’s terrified of the Twitterati, the BBC and the assorted woke virtue-signallers who infest the Establishment.

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