The NHS is a disaster, it truly is. It really doesn’t do what it says on the tin which is to provide healthcare for all Britons regardless of ability to pay. It’s not just been a disaster during the time of covid, it’s nearly always been this way. As a nationalised industry it behaves in the manner that all nationalised industries do which is to provide a piss poor service to the taxpayer who funds it and it is run more for the benefit of the staff rather than the actual patients.

The NHS suffers from appallingly long waiting lists for treatment, poor quality treatment, a lack of innovation, arrogant and sometimes cruel staff and of course it is run by a bureaucratic elite who hamper any attempt to make it more customer focussed. About the only people who win from the existence of the NHS are the bureaucrats and non-job holders who do very little to improve the already bad healthcare that’s offered but do a very good job of lining their own pockets. In effect it is our money that is paying for their, that is the bureaucrats, non-jobs and make-work activities.

Money that should be spent on healthcare is instead spent on layers upon layers of management that do very little apart from spawn more management jobs that management say are ‘required’ to run the health service. If the excessive levels of management, of a sort that would not be tolerated in a private company that needed to keep an eye on the bottom line, were not bad enough, then there is the waste. The NHS has become a sort of welfare state within a state and one where the primary beneficiaries are members of the Middle Class Left. The NHS has hundreds upon hundreds of parasites sucking and feeding upon it mostly those who want to promote trendy Middle Class Left ideas and who provide no benefit at all for patient care.

I’ve pointed out on a number of occasions on here and elsewhere the extreme levels of bureaucratic bloat that the NHS both tolerates and often encourages. This bloat is costing British taxpayers billions of pounds a year and diverts money that could be spent on decent healthcare for those who stump up the cash via taxes to fund the NHS.

I recently saw two examples on Twitter of various non-jobs that the NHS has been advertising for and they are for non-jobs that provide a significant salary to those who made the mistake of doing a degree in gender or women’s studies or community art.

Here’s the first example of NHS waste that contains not one but four positions in various health areas for ‘inclusion and diversity staff. You just know that none of these positions will contribute in any way shape or form to the improvement of healthcare but they come with salaries that start at either £31k or £53k depending on the position. At a time when the NHS cannot provide the service to the public that we all pay for and expect, the spunking of so much public money on divisive and unnecessary non-jobs for the Middle Class Leftists who will no doubt be employed in these positions, is horrendous.

We move on now to Bristol where the local healthcare trust has decided that rather than spend £53k on a nurse for example or even some more cleaning materials to prevent unnecessary infections being transmitted in the hospital, they are hiring an Arts Director.

Whilst art in a hospital is a nice thing to have, it could probably be acquired for a lot less than the £53k that this position will ‘earn’. What I suspect will happen, based on my experience of working in the ‘community arts’ field for a short time, is that the £53k cost of the salary is only the tip of the mountain of waste that this project is likely to represent. There is likely to be at least £100k available to be spent on artworks and art workers and as the art world and especially the community art world is notoriously incestuous and corrupt, it would not surprise me in the least to find out that many of the art workers are the post holder’s mates or the artwork bought with our money is also that produced by the post holders friends and acquaintances. The £53k that is being spunked on the art worker will sadly not be then end of the waste.

This is just a small sample of what the NHS is wasting our money on and the sort of stuff that would not be tolerated in an organisation that actually had to provide a decent service or product to their customers. The NHS is a failed health service, it cannot treat its customers decently or effectively and is a massive and inglorious money pit that is supporting a whole host of unemployables who are only ‘qualified’ for non-jobs at our expense. Will I cheer or applaud the NHS after seeing this small sample of the fiscal and medical disaster that is the NHS when the government ask me to? Will I bugger. The NHS needs to die and be replaced with something more customer focussed and able to provide the decent healthcare that we both pay for and which we should expect.