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NHS Hiring Dozens of Diversity Jobs on Up to £91,000 a Year Despite Order to Stop

by Will Jones
29 January 2025 5:44 PM

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.

Tags: Anti-wokeConservative PartyDEIDiversity and InclusionLabourNHSWoke Gobbledegook

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
1 year ago

Universities are offensive to me – what can I do about it?

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lymeswold
lymeswold
1 year ago

Until now I’ve always been a royalist, even if only because, like democracy, it’s perhaps the least worst option. But frankly, with the wretched new incumbent and the obnoxious behaviour of one of his offspring and associated wife, I’m having to rethink.

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago
Reply to  lymeswold

Agreed, but it’s the National Anthem, a song which symbolises our Nation as well as a plea for the King to be saved. Personally I’d far sooner have Land of Hope and Glory, but the Woke rabble would hate that even more.

I think of it as a plea for the King to be saved from his moronic Net Zero opinions.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

Another example of the abandonment of national pride! I’m no lover of saving the king either but, national pride is an important concept or, what are we?
Land of hope and glory would be a far better anthem, I’m sure we could all get behind that one? F Chortles!

Last edited 1 year ago by Dinger64
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For a fist full of roubles
For a fist full of roubles
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Judge what we are by the number of rainbow, Ukrainian and Palestinian flags flying from homes and public buildings over the last few years instead of the Union Jack.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

I know what you mean 😏 it leads you to despair sometimes doesn’t it?
Considering what a great nation Britain once was!

Last edited 1 year ago by Dinger64
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WyrdWoman
WyrdWoman
1 year ago
Reply to  For a fist full of roubles

Isn’t flying the Union Jack or, heaven forbid, the George Cross now considered incitement to ‘terror’, whatever TF that means? Are we the only country doing this, or are other Western countries doing the same?

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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

The thing is, I would’ve been happy to sing along to ‘God Save The Queen’ but I wouldn’t be singing the updated ‘King’ version now out of principle, because basically Charles is a globalist, WEF sock-puppet nob who I have nothing but contempt for. So I wouldn’t partake, just for different reasons to that of the students mentioned above. I’d be there getting scolded for wearing my ”Not My King” T-shirt instead.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

”Not My King” T-shirt

Can I get one?

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MikeAustin
MikeAustin
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Get a “No Smoking” t-shirt and modify to suit.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

I’d be there getting scolded for wearing my ”Not My King” T-shirt instead.

If you’re a citizen of some Commonwealth monarchy, he is your king. Nobody gets to choose that. He may be (and probably is) a bad king. OTOH, what kind of wonders are to be expected from a guy who’d have become an OAP long before he had become anything other than an eternal pretender-in-waiting and national laughing stock if he ever had had something resembling a normal life? Nobody can be nothing but The Crown Prince® from age 4 to age 74 and remain mentally sane.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

But if he kept his mouth shut he might just get away with it but like Mark Twain pointed out. “It is better to stay quiet and let people think your stupid rather than open it to confirm you are”.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
1 year ago

The state should stop underwriting universities.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

Here’s a answer to all our immigration and integration problems!

Mandatory national service!

Oh watch the buggers bail out of Britain by the cruise ship full! There would not be enough small boats to meet the market requirements of getting out quickly enough! and the “students” wouldn’t be far behind!
A real world way of sorting the wheat from the chaff!

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

https://off-guardian.org/2023/12/07/imf-head-wants-world-wide-carbon-taxes/

The only details we don’t have are how these additional taxes will be hidden.

There will come a point at which taxation will bottom out simply because there is no more squeezing to be done. How desperately poor we will be at that point is anybody’s guess.

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MikeAustin
MikeAustin
1 year ago

Celebrating personal achievement should not require the singing of any anthem. No contempt is implied by not singing the national anthem.
Celebrating a university achievement or anniversary – as part of history and heritage – one might argue differently.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  MikeAustin

Shall we just rip up the flag as well? Maybe we should just call ourselves a “region” rather than a “nation” because that is what we are turning into.

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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
1 year ago

I contribute money to the Republic campaign and any time I’m at an event which plays the dirge which is our national anthem with it’s ridiculous words I just turn my back or remain seated.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago

Vigilante Bomber:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQww-UvxvqA

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

https://www.globalresearch.ca/police-state-wants-us-nation-snowflakes/5842324

Another excellent essay from John and Nisha Whitehead detailing the wanton destruction of our history and traditions. There is rightly an emphasis on this Christmas time.

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
1 year ago

The ‘National Anthem’ is a dirge. It’s dull and uninspiring and more funeral music than a ‘national anthem’. It panders to being sung out of tune. I can’t stand the bloody thing!

Especially NOW!

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

Not to worry . ——In 50 years we will have a bit of rap as the anthem ——Mutha Fucka Yo

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zebedee
zebedee
1 year ago

God save us from the King

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Nearhorburian
Nearhorburian
1 year ago

Keith Emerson’s arrangement of Jerusalem should be the national; anthem.

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Freddy Boy
Freddy Boy
1 year ago

As long as they don’t replace it with “The Call To Prayer” I couldn’t careless says me , a lifelong defender of the Monarchy but not anymore ! Charlie & William have shown their hand – WEF to the core ! Can’t call them traitors because they don’t work on our behalf & probably never have !!!…

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago

Maybe we need a Globalist Anthem ———“God save our gracious UN, long live our noble UN, God save the planet, da da da da, Happy but having nought, cold but houses stuffed with foam, happy to reign like Club of Rome, God save UN”.

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Peter W
Peter W
1 year ago

Personally I don’t see the point in the national anthem but it is tradition. How about those who are “offended” (god, I hate that word) that the anthem is not to be used?

Why not axe the mortar boards and gowns? They are surely old fashioned. While you’re about it ditch the sitting around waiting to be given a slip of paper and just email them.

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