Britain’s wasteful and too often incompetent healthcare system the National Health Service (NHS) which has over 10% of the UK’s population sitting on waiting lists has found a new way to splurge public money. They are spending £14 million on hiring and paying for diversity, equity and inclusion staff.
MSN, quoting from a Daily Telegraph article said:
The NHS is creating hundreds of diversity and inclusion roles despite being told to crack down on “waste and wokery”.
Officials at NHS England have drawn up plans for three new departments called “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion”, “People and Culture” and “People and Communities”, with 244 posts across the teams.
The Health Secretary is understood to be “frustrated” by the move and intends to summon health officials to demand explanations for the creation of large departments enforcing “woke doctrines”.
Ministers have repeatedly promised to crack down on bureaucracy, with NHS England ordered to cut its total workforce by up to 40 per cent.
Earlier this year, Steve Barclay, the Health Secretary, ordered NHS England to get rid of specific diversity and inclusion roles, as part of efforts to “ensure good value for money”.
The latest move has emerged ahead of the first joint strikes by junior doctors and consultants which NHS bosses have warned will cancel almost all appointments.
NHS waiting lists in England are also at a record high, with 7.7 million people – around one in seven of the population – waiting for treatment.
Plans seen by The Telegraph show the units have a staffing budget of almost £14 million, including 18 senior officials on six-figure salaries.
The departments fall under the auspices of workforce chief Dr Navina Evans, who is on a salary of more than £200,000.
Many of us have good, sound and often intensely personal reasons to hate the NHS. This is another reason to add to a very long list.
I don’t entirely agree with your implication that the NHS would be improved and significant funding released if they scrapped their Diversity Equality and Inclusion recruitment programme. One of the problems the NHS is facing at the moment is staff shortages and competiton with the private healthcare sector for job opportunies. If the private sector is offering better DEI conditions of course the NHS has to invest to compete.
The DIE rubbish that the NHS is funding is just a symptom of a greater problem which is the nature of the organisaiton and the way it is funded and managed. We deserve better than what we get from the NHS and it needs to be replaced with a system fit for the 21st century rather than the 1940’s.