WILL JONES
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.
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When will the NHS admit DEI is dead?
JOSEPHINE BARTOSCH
The idea that overworked nurses and stretched consultants have the time to hurl racist or homophobic slurs at patients seems farcical. But given the huge sums of money wasted on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), clearly the NHS leadership believes there’s a problem with bigotry among its employees. Yesterday the Telegraph reported that since Labour took office in July, at least 35 new DEI jobs have been advertised within the health service, some with salaries exceeding £80,000. This is the equivalent of one every week since the election.
The progressive mania infecting the health service has not gone unnoticed. In 2023, then health secretary Steve Barclay attempted to scrap DEI roles, asking NHS leaders to “justify in public why such roles add more value than additional medical or healthcare staff”. He was ignored. Current Health Secretary Wes Streeting has echoed his predecessor’s words, demanding that the NHS tackle health inequalities rather than focusing on “pointless ideological changes”. But despite his criticism, the NHS leadership is determined to throw taxpayer money at solving a confected problem.
The lack of brazen bigotry within the NHS is somewhat inconvenient for the cadre of newly employed professionals. And so it has been necessary to widen the definitions of “-isms” and “-phobias” and lower the threshold for transgressions to give them purpose. Some NHS employees have found themselves stymied in their careers and embroiled in legal battles as a result of this ideological creep.
Amy Gallagher was a mental health nurse studying at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. As part of her course, she attended a lecture where she was expected to “confront the reality of white privilege”, and another during which she was informed that “Christianity is racist because it is European.” Gallagher said she disagreed with the teaching of Critical Race Theory as fact. For daring to challenge the DEI orthodoxy, she was accused of inflicting “race-based harm” and is now suing the NHS for discrimination.
The NHS justifies DEI spending by citing health inequalities, such as the disparity in maternal mortality rates between black and white women. But how online training sessions about white privilege, pronoun badges or LGBTQ History Month posters are supposed to solve these problems remains unclear.
While bosses defend these questionable measures as vital for staff retention and patient outcomes, the reality on the front line is bleak: morale is low, waiting lists are growing, and emergency services are in crisis. It seems fair to ask: if DEI roles are so essential, why are NHS services continuing to decline?
Ultimately, the notion that NHS employees cannot be trusted to treat patients or each other fairly without constant oversight is an insult to the hardworking doctors, nurses and medical professionals who dedicate their lives to saving others. Although the responsibility for creating an inclusive and respectful culture is carried by each of them, this can only happen in workplaces where management is sufficiently engaged and interested.
Instead of leading, vain NHS bosses have surrendered to ideology, squandering public money to ease their own consciences and indulge niche interests. Hiring an army of well-paid DEI officers is nothing more than an expensive cop-out — outsourcing the job of fostering a fair workplace culture rather than taking real responsibility.
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UK NHS – 800 diversity officers – cost £40 million – 3,500 non-medics earning more than £100,000 and an extra 25 billion on top of already inflated budgets – oh, and black history month celebrations!
PETER HALLIGAN
From here:
“Messing Around The Edges” | Keir Starmer’s Labour Government Slammed
Patients die in corridors waiting for treatment!!!
Per Brave AI:
“The UK National Health Service (NHS) in England has seen significant budget changes over the last five years. According to the latest infomation, the government has allocated an additional £25.7 billion over the current year and next, which is the largest increase since 2010, excluding the years affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. “
On top of the super inflated 190-billion-pound budget!
From Brave AI:
“The UK National Health Service (NHS) in England has seen significant budget changes over the last five years. According to the latest information, the government has allocated an additional £25.7 billion over the current year and next, which is the largest increase since 2010, excluding the years affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The response of throwing more tens of billions of pounds is equivalent to buying more cattle because the existing stock is being sickened by a plague of blood-sucking vampires!
And from here:
“The NHS has 19% more staff compared to before the pandemic but is only seeing 14% more patients. “
“… DHSC and NHSE are yet to recognise the scale of transformation needed to make the NHS financially sustainable. “
“… three big shifts that it wants to see: from hospital to community-based care; from analogue to digital; and from treating ill health to its prevention.”
The NHS technology is soooooo 1980’s! Check this out!
“… For example, a number of NHS trusts continue to rely on outdated IT equipment such as fax machines. The NHS currently lacks a consistent data infrastructure.”
As for those non-medical staff earning more than £100,000, per Brave AI:
“Information on the total salary paid specifically to NHS non-medical staff earning more than £100,000 is not directly provided in the context.
However, it is noted that nearly 2,400 staff were employed by NHS bodies in non-clinical roles, of which 472 earned more than £150,000.
Additionally, NHS England has hired 430 managers on salaries of at least £100,000. “
430 “managers” earning, say, an average oof £250,000 = £107,500,000!!!
These salaries may not reflect other “perks” like six weeks paid holidays, (private) health insurance and pensions!
Not quite in the same league as the Manly local authority in Sydney, Australia, but getting there!
Assuming a nurse costs £$0,000 a year, every £100 million equates to 2,000 nurses. But check this out, from Brave AI:
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“2019: The UK saw a notable influx of nurses from other EU countries, with around 7,500 nurses from countries such as Spain, Romania, and Italy registering to work in the UK.
· 2023: Over 6,000 new nurses registered in the UK came from countries highlighted by the World Health Organization as being at risk of not achieving universal health coverage due to health workforce shortfalls.
We can assume that the numbers for intervening years are probably around the 7,000 mark, making that in the five years to 2023, around 50,000 foreign nurses joined the NHS in the last 5 years- the majority of whom will not be fluent in English, but are, at least, legal immigrants!
As for those “DEI hires, per Brav AI:
“According to Freedom of Information requests submitted by the Taxpayers’ Alliance, the NHS in England employs around 800 diversity, equality, and inclusion (DEI) officers. These officers are distributed across NHS trusts and the central administration, with the central administration having 35 whole-time posts. The total cost for these DEI officers is approximately £40 million a year.”
Costing, reportedly, 40 million pounds!
How many DEI hires across all of Government and Local Authorities?
It’s a secret, but I guesstimate around 3 times that NHS number of 800 = 2,500 plus the same 2,500 in Local Authorities – call it 5,000 – each earning around £50,000 a year plus perks.
“Black History Month in the NHS aims to foster a better understanding of the unique healthcare needs and experiences of Black patients and staff, leading to improved patient care and increased staff satisfaction, recruitment, and retention.”
Maybe there will soon be a “foreign non-black nurse history month”. Heaven forbid there will ever be a “elderly white patient history month” – the costs for whom make up mor than half of all medical and care costs. Will we see some metrics on numbers and quality? I doubt it,
Onwards!!
This article (UK NHS – 800 diversity officers – cost £40 million – 3,500 non-medics earning more than £100,000 and an extra 25 billion on top of already inflated budgets – oh, and black history month celebrations!) was created and published by Peter Halligan and is republished here under “Fair Use”
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