Management is to blame for problems within health service
We are always being told that our NHS is underfunded and that is why we have all the problems.
Reading between the lines, It is my opinion that a lot of the problems that blight our health service are procurement and an abundance of non-medical managers who take such huge salaries from the pot.
Whatever happened to our nurse training schools led by sister tutors and why do nurses have to now go to university in order to qualify no doubt with huge training costs?
Why have agencies been allowed to proliferate and so many trained staff allowed to join them so that when they are re-employed to maintain our health service the costs are many times higher than directly employed staff? Agency staff should only be used in the direst circumstances and a better idea would be for the health service to run its own pool of staff to cover shortfalls.
In private businesses such as hairdressing, people trained by an employer are legally stopped from setting up in business within several miles of their employer. What is different with the health service? It seems to me that The dedicated medical staff who remain with the NHS are the ones who pay the price of overwork and underpay.
As usual the Labour Party make their regular claims that others are intent on privatising the NHS and that more and more money is needed and yet it was under Blair’s administration that private building companies were encouraged to build hospitals which remain in their ownership and the NHS was saddled with huge rental bills to use these hospitals with contracts lasting many, many years.
Neither the Labour Party nor the Conservatives have given enough consideration to cater for the health needs of the millions that have been encouraged to come to this country to find work and prosperity and it is no good Labour and the Lib Dems claiming that the service would collapse if we didn’t have so many foreign workers employed there, it is precisely because of their lack of foresight for need that has helped to put our NHS in it’s current precarious position. Most if not all our problems are caused by lack of forward planning.
Matrons used to control hospitals and generally made a better job of it than what we witness now. Our NHS is screaming out for a genius to take over it’s running separate from politicians and we might just get back on track.
Adrian Williams, Bratton
