Any hope that the revamped Health Boards would see a new slimline administration pushing savings in management and bureaucracy towards front-line services have been dashed with the revelation in today’s Western Mail that not a single administrator’s job was lost when NHS Wales underwent a major reorganisation in October.
Despite the number of Local Health Boards (LHBs) being reduced from 22 to seven, none of the highly paid chief executives and finance directors whose jobs have disappeared have been made redundant. Incredibly, the Government say that although they expect to see a reduction in management costs over time this was never the primary purpose of the reform programme.
Nobody likes to see people made redundant but it seems that there is not even a voluntary redundancy scheme. People expect to receive first-class healthcare when they pay their taxes, not to bankroll administrators and bureaucrats.
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not a single administrator’s job was lost when NHS Wales underwent a major reorganisation in October
- as cynics predicted. If I remember correctly, a reduction in the cost of administration was near the top of Edwina Hart’s list justifying the changes.
What this also means is that the ratio of elected “stakeholders” to staff has gone down.
People expect [...] not to bankroll administrators and bureaucrats
– too many of whom are close to the administration in Cardiff.
Yes if any jobs did go it would be from the lower tiers, New labour and Labours ideals they cannot live with out big earners but can live easy without the backing of the working class