Loss of staff will be at least twice as big as thought, as new NHS England chief tells regional boards to cut costs by 50%
  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    This is such a misleading headline.

    The Tories created NHS England in 2012, basically an independently ran management layer for the NHS. Labour is bringing it back under government control.

    There was a lot of extra bureaucracy by adding this additional ‘NHS England’ layer, with a lot of nurses in particular hired to do it.

    Yes, a lot of these people’s administrative/management jobs will no longer be needed, but it’s very likely a great deal of these people (who again are predominantly nurses) will be hired by the (government-ran) NHS.

    I’m not surprised to see the Mail, Express, and Telegraph spin this news as Labour scrapping the NHS or mass sacking NHS workers, but I’m sad to see the Guardian doing the same.

    • davesmith@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      10 hours ago

      Everyone is not ‘anti-progress’, unless the ‘progress’ you mean is the type we see Elon Musk engaging in in the US.

      But wait, the combination of ‘austerity’ and privatisation both parties (red and blue Tory) have engaged in for decades now is exactly a slow-paced what Musk is speed-running in the US. And the UK gradually moves down the global affluence tables while the rich get richer because of it.

      So I guess maybe that is why everyone is so anti ‘progress’. You just forgot the necessary quotation marks around the work ‘progress’.