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**Vulkanevsel** · 03-17-2011, 02:29 AM

People seem to think that hospitals can run without an infrastructure. It's a nice sound-bite to talk about reducing non-medical staff but in the same way as an army needs a lot of people supporting the front-line troops, so does a hospital.

Hospitals have CEO's whose job it is to minimise costs. They don't employ non-medical staff for the fun of it. This is not to say that there isn't dead wood in the NHS, as there is, but if they wanted to get rid of waste they might consider ways of being able to get rid of crap people more easily.

I can give a direct example of gratuitous axe-waving. In a hospital near me a 'new broom' has come in at the head of an IT section who thought he could re-structure and cut jobs. He didn't know what he was doing, made some good people redundant and pissed off a lot of others, who are now all leaving, and many clinical staff who are dependant on good support, and appreciate it, are now worried about how its all going downhill.

03-17-2011, 02:29 AM	#10
Vulkanevsel Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 286 Senior Member	People seem to think that hospitals can run without an infrastructure. It's a nice sound-bite to talk about reducing non-medical staff but in the same way as an army needs a lot of people supporting the front-line troops, so does a hospital. Hospitals have CEO's whose job it is to minimise costs. They don't employ non-medical staff for the fun of it. This is not to say that there isn't dead wood in the NHS, as there is, but if they wanted to get rid of waste they might consider ways of being able to get rid of crap people more easily. I can give a direct example of gratuitous axe-waving. In a hospital near me a 'new broom' has come in at the head of an IT section who thought he could re-structure and cut jobs. He didn't know what he was doing, made some good people redundant and pissed off a lot of others, who are now all leaving, and many clinical staff who are dependant on good support, and appreciate it, are now worried about how its all going downhill.
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