14M to be spent on DEI jobs in the NHS

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Melroses · 18/09/2023 09:37

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/17/nhs-england-diversity-roles-despite-crackdown-waste-wokery/

In today's Telegraph

" Officials at NHS England have drawn up plans for three new departments called “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion”, “People and Culture” and “People and Communities”, with 244 posts across the teams.
The Health Secretary is understood to be “frustrated” by the move and intends to summon health officials to demand explanations for the creation of large departments enforcing “woke doctrines”.
Ministers have repeatedly promised to crack down on bureaucracy, with NHS England ordered to cut its total workforce by up to 40 per cent.
Earlier this year, Steve Barclay, the Health Secretary, ordered NHS England to get rid of specific diversity and inclusion roles, as part of efforts to “ensure good value for money”.
The latest move has emerged ahead of the first joint strikes by junior doctors and consultants which NHS bosses have warned will cancel almost all appointments.
NHS waiting lists in England are also at a record high, with 7.7 million people – around one in seven of the population – waiting for treatment. "

NHS to spend millions creating ‘woke’ diversity and inclusion jobs

Move to set up three new departments focusing on equality and LGBT issues comes despite ministers' demands for less bureaucracy

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/17/nhs-england-diversity-roles-despite-crackdown-waste-wokery/

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Rudderneck · 18/09/2023 10:32

The thing that strikes me with EDI is that there really is very little evidence that it improves outcomes. And some reason to think it causes problems, as we know well here.

I think it's mostly a make-work scheme for people with shitty gender studies and sociology degrees.

Middlelanehogger · 18/09/2023 09:54

Hard to comment without seeing the breakdowns as I've seen People & Culture used elsewhere as a euphemism for standard HR. But they do quote 50 EDI staff for £3M a year, and the total costs for all three depts as £14M a year. I believe the total NHS England budget is around £600M.

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Melroses · 18/09/2023 09:52

There is the whole issue of maternal and child deaths at the moment - so many investigations.
I was reading a thread on General Health where people are being encouraged to have endoscopy without sedation. So much penny pinching.
There is the lack of thought for deaf people when they put in new systems to call people for appointments so they are just left sitting there.
https://archive.ph/e3Kv8

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IsleOfPenguinBollards · 18/09/2023 09:44

I can’t read the article as it’s behind a paywall.

However, why not spend the DEI money on investigating why Black mothers and their babies have significantly higher perinatal mortality rates than white mothers and their babies?

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