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Dido Harding in charge of NHS England?? Oh HELL No!!

25 replies

Gingernaut · 06/06/2021 19:15

Just came across this nugget.

Dido Harding is thinking about 'throwing her hat into the ring' for next chief of NHS England.

AIBU to think she is the last person to be considered for this role after everything that's happened?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53824374

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AlmostSummer21 · 06/06/2021 19:16

She's not fit to be in charge of the tombola, let alone the NHS.

Gingernaut · 06/06/2021 19:17

Agreed.

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Ginuwine · 06/06/2021 19:18

She will be considered because she is likely to implement the "disruptive" ( aka reform of) approach to the NHS.

What that actually means is that she'll bring about the biggest privatisation and outsourcing drive we've seen.

I despair.

Gingernaut · 06/06/2021 19:35

Everything she has touched has turned to shit.

Who is she making money for?

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PastMyBestBeforeDate · 06/06/2021 19:38

They're not even pretending now that the NHS is going to be kept safe are they?

Eaumyword · 06/06/2021 19:53

@AlmostSummer21

She's not fit to be in charge of the tombola, let alone the NHS.
This with bells on! She must have the hide of a rhino to lurch from failure to failure and still think she can add value to anything. I had the misfortune of working in a company she 'advised on' years ago. Needless to say, her project management was shit. The sycophancy around her even back then was nauseating.
Cleverpolly3 · 06/06/2021 19:57

She couldn’t run a piss up in a brewery. Turns a blind eye to epic systemic failure and thinks wandering around in some boden clothes absolves her from the fact she is a fuck up as well as her employer.

So she’ll get the job.

Cleverpolly3 · 06/06/2021 19:59

@Gingernaut
“Everything she touched has turned to shit”

Sorry I know it’s not funny and are right but this made me really laugh. She’s like the antithesis of Midas. And she has a classic name.

PicsInRed · 06/06/2021 20:00

Boris has "done" Brexit, that's what he was elected to do, now Brexit's done it's probably time for him to leave.

PerkingFaintly · 06/06/2021 20:00
rockingthelook · 06/06/2021 20:02

Rewarded for huge lack of ability and total incompetence, in the real world you'd just get the sack, why are some people like teflon? This just stinks, I hope people really take the government to task if this is remotely likely to happen, Labour really need to start being a credible opposition soon

Serpenta · 06/06/2021 20:07

The Tories do enjoy promoting these failures upwards. I love that her MP husband also serves as the Anti-Corruption Champion. How they must chortle.

Gingernaut · 06/06/2021 21:41

She wasn't considered a safe bet in April

www.hsj.co.uk/policy-and-regulation/the-leading-candidates-for-the-next-ceo-of-nhs-england/7029994.article

How?? Just HOW does this woman have a fighting chance of this job?

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Amelia666 · 06/06/2021 21:44

Yanbu!!! Farcical

Gingernaut · 06/06/2021 21:46

Even the Daily Fail doesn't think it's a good idea.

Check the comments....

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9656951/Bungling-former-Test-Trace-boss-Dido-Harding-wants-run-NHS-despite-litany-failures.html

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LemonRoses · 06/06/2021 21:49

It’s appalling but she will undoubtedly be appointed. Corruption and Cronyism..

Totallydefeated · 06/06/2021 21:50

If you’re junior and you fail spectacularly, you get the sack. If you’re senior and trouser an eye-watering sum, and you fail, you at the very least get a massive golden handshake. And often you get a plum new role elsewhere. What neve rever happens, is this you get held accountable for your failure. ‘Tis the way for the gilded class in this country.

RoseRedRoseBlue · 06/06/2021 21:52

Nothing surprises me anymore. This whole bunch are rotten to the core, yet people keep lapping it up.

Tealightsandd · 06/06/2021 21:53

Sorry but surely the position should only go to someone with actual medical - clinical - experience.

Gingernaut · 07/06/2021 00:02

I agree Tealightsandd

Someone with clinical knowledge and proven experience of successful NHS trust leadership

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Guavafish · 07/06/2021 00:35

Everyone was warm this would happen.

Vote Tory = private health service (we all saw the leaked document).

Guavafish · 07/06/2021 00:35

Warned*

Gingernaut · 17/06/2021 18:11

Welp, she's applied for the job

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StripyHorse · 17/06/2021 18:50

@AlmostSummer21

She's not fit to be in charge of the tombola, let alone the NHS.
🤣🤣🤣 Exactly this!
NannyPlumsSnarkyWand · 17/06/2021 19:01

And when it all finally goes to shit once hospitals are being run for profit the same people who voted in this openly corrupt, morally deficient lot will -rather than reflecting on their choice of decision-maker - blame "the asylum seekers".

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