AIBU to feel nothing has changed after the NHS redundancy cull?

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Have survived the great redundancy cull… feel like nothings changed and still same colleagues on average six figures talking the same nonsense, nothing has changed. Anyone else experiencing this?

My friend works in NHS HR, doing the redundancy cull, she says exactly the same as you.

Our trust has been on a recruitment freeze for ages and we are really struggling within the admin teams but there are plenty of very senior managers and managerial posts being advertised……..
same said managers moaning when things aren’t done quick enough too!

And the same useless bastards in middle management(who would be sacked in 5 minutes in the private sector) that somehow manage to duck the axe every time...

Has anything changed in other ways? Apart from the senior people that you can’t get rid of.

I know exactly what you mean. Where we are it’s meant freezes for all the high turnover jobs on the ground that actually keep the shop running. Maternity leaves not covered which disproportionately affects some small essential clinical teams. While at the top there is still a proliferation of adverts for ‘quality managers’ and not a single redundancy in bloated corporate or HR services. An absolute joke.

Yes!! Is this unique to the nhs or normal across the public sector?
I’ve lost some fantastic colleagues and many of those left are not coming across as hardworking people.

I think it's public sector as a whole, from what friends in the civil service tell me. If your face fits, you can get away with anything.

I had a grievance against my NHS boss. So many people had had trouble with him / left because of him. Turnover in our team was really high. He caused no end of issues and morale was in the toilet. Bugger all came of it and he's still there fucking things up, years later. The union rep told me 'I've never seen anyone successfully challenge management, they always close ranks'.

These people would be out on their ear in the private sector.

I worked in a local authority. Alot of older workers took redundancy then came back as temps!

So is it the patient facing roles that got cut?

Our senior NHS management are completely not held to account despite mismanagement of the trust finances. It is appalling really. We are badgered about the smallest thing, yet they seem to get away with it.

The cuts happening right now are truly horrendous. I don’t think the general public all know how much worse the NHS is about to get.

Senior management in these government agencies are politicians at heart.

What's changed is that they've got rid of hundreds of band 3 admin roles, so there's literally no one to answer the phone when patients try to ring and band 7 nurses are now spending time doing photocopying and booking appointments, while people with job titles like Chief People Officer and Head of Inclusion are still in post still doing the nothing of value they were doing before.

I can well beleive it they never cull their own very very important jobs ( that nonone can really explain what their role is exactly )
Just those that directly affect patient care .

Exactly the same in my non clinical diagnostic department.