If you have the misfortune to be a taxpayer in the Stratford area of East London and are in need of National Health Service medical treatment then it’s unlikely that you will get the high quality of healthcare that you’ve paid for via your taxes. You will probably face a long wait to see your GP then even more of a wait for tests and investigations before finally, you hope, going on a waiting list for treatment.

You, the taxpayer in London E15 might think that you are not getting your moneys worth from the healthcare ‘service’ that the NHS is deigning to provide, that’s almost a dead cert. But you can live in whatever pain you have or risk your condition getting worse while you wait safe in the knowledge that your taxes are paying for yet another worthless and expensive diversity practitioner.

This is because the NHS in the Stratford E15 area of London have decided, despite the other desperate needs that the NHS has in the area to splurge up to £91,000 per year on a Head of Diversity and Inclusion. £91k might have paid for a couple of nurses or the salaries of 2.5 foundation year junior doctors or gone towards opening medical imaging for longer hours. Sadly it is not. It is, as you can see from the advertisement below, being spent on staff who bring no benefit to the core job of the NHS which is to treat Briton’s medical ailments.

The NHS has become in some areas little more than a welfare state for middle class managerial ponces, with money that should be spent on core functions being wasted on those who will bring sod all that is needed to the healthcare environment of the UK. Unfortunately this position is not a one off, there’s hundreds and hundreds of these useless non-jobs and the equally useless people who occupy them. The NHS is a deep pit of public sector waste and it needs to change and give the public much more value for their money.