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Chinese Army v NHS
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:15 pm
by Von Boy
Interesting little fact................
Britains NHS is the highest employing organisation in the world second only to the Chinese Army !!! and by the amount of offices being filled around the country with various NHS "departments" (offices NOT hospitals!!) the Chinese army beware......we're catching you up !!(thanks to a bottomless supply of income)
I believe the NHS will, one day, bankrupt UK plc !!
!cool!
Re: Chinese Army v NHS
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:01 pm
by planeterotica
Trouble with the NHS is to many chiefs and not enough indians!sad!
Re: Chinese Army v NHS
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:10 pm
by Pervert
Don't be so bloody stupid. Doctors and nurses and paramedics are all very well, but how on earth can they find all the necessary forms, biros and paperclips without the administrators?
Re: Chinese Army v NHS
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:17 pm
by slamdaddy
I also heard that in the last 5 or so years the number of managers in the NHS has increased dramatically, while the numbers of staff that actually do something hasn't increased by anywhere near the same amount.
Re: Chinese Army v NHS
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:26 am
by Pervert
It's also worth looking at how much money goes into the furnishing and decoration of those managers' offices. You can't expect them to make do with just a plain desk and lino, after all.
Re: Chinese Army v NHS
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 1:54 pm
by oscar
How many nurses work in the NHS - about two thirds. This is based on unpleasant experience. If the NHS was a business then it could do away with half the administrators and treat a lot more patients just by doing the basics properly.
Re: Chinese Army v NHS
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:53 pm
by slamdaddy
Exactly the same thing can be said of schools, and probably all public services. I used to work in a school, and the deputy head of the school next door wasted no end of money because he insisted on leasing computers from a certain supplier, instead of buying them from any number of other suppliers that were selling better, more reliable computers for about 70% of the price. He also used to overspend on his departments budget, and buy things that he hadn't budgetted for. On at least 1 occasion he was told that he'd just have enough to get through til the end of the year providing he spent nothing else. In the following 2 weeks he spent more than ?2,000 doing things that weren't needed and weren't budgetted for, resulting in the schools budgets being closed a month early to try to make up for the shortfall in his. Every other department was made to pay because this guy was an asshole. Every single person who put forward an opinion about him said that if he'd worked in a proper job instead of in a publicly funded one, he'd have been fired years ago.
Re: Chinese Army v NHS
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 1:22 pm
by Von Boy
as far as I know Photo Taker, alot of the media do know these facts. Interesting to know that the Sun, we love it !, as a supporter of new labour don't raise things like this.
The opposition can't say much because so many votes are now in the public sector they would never get into power. Would you vote for a party who wants a smaller public sector, including a better run NHS ? then find yourself out on the streets a week after the election, losing your very comfortable position and pension bits?.
I don't see a change of goverment in this country now for at least 10/12 years and even then its will be a close run thing.