Good Old NHS - eh?

[Progenitor A]

n the last 10 years, the NHS has doubled expenditure from £60billion to £120billion, yet productivity has fallen during that period

A Consultant's salary has increased from £70k to £120k over the same period, yet their work-load has fallen

These are the findings of the Parliamentary select committee under a Labour Chairman

And the proposed NHS reorganisations are NOT necessary?

Hahahaha!

Remind you of that wonderful organisation called the USSR?

[abacus9900]

Remind you of that wonderful organisation called the USSR?

Well, we have a right wing government in power now so....

[rsmith7]

....they'll be vilified for cutting the inefficiency and lose the next election allowing the idiots who caused the problem to absolutely destroy this country.
Brilliant, eh?

[carnyx]

Second largest employer in the world by now ?

Here is an extract from a Times article from 2004

Almost 1.3 million people — or the combined populations of Birmingham and Coventry — work for the NHS, which is one of the world’s biggest employers.

Since 1997, the number of NHS staff has risen by nearly 230,000, with a record 59,000 people — enough to fill Old Trafford football stadium — joining last year alone.

According to the latest workforce census, the NHS employs 386,400 nurses — matching the entire population of Edinburgh — 109,000 doctors and 122,100 scientists and other therapists.

An extra 18,800 nurses were employed in 2003, up 5.1 per cent on the previous year, and there were 5,600 more doctors — an increase of 5.5 per cent. Although the number of managers rose by a relatively modest 3,000, this amounted to a 9.4 per cent increase in a year — almost double the growth rate in nurses’ numbers.

A total of 1,282,900 people in England have jobs with the NHS: 2 per cent of the 30 million people of working age.

Only the Chinese Army and the Indian State Railways are believed to employ more people — with 2.3 million and 1.5 million staff respectively — but both workforces represent a far smaller proportion of the national populations.

John Reid, the Health Secretary, said he was delighted with the growth, but added that he was aware that more action was needed to tackle existing staff shortages.

“The NHS has more doctors, nurses, scientists and therapists than ever before — as we promised in the NHS plan,” he said. “Despite the record increases in numbers of doctors and nurses this year, I know the NHS still struggles with shortages in some specialties and we all have a lot more to do. I can’t create skilled medical professionals overnight but the Government is putting in place the training places needed for the future.”

The figures come a day after a report into cancer services by the National Audit Office, the parliamentary watchdog, revealed that a shortage of diagnostic specialists was partly to blame for England’s poor cancer survival rates.