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Secretive mega shake-up of NHS could cost £15 mil
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16th Jan 2017 5:58pm
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Unite Press Release Immediate release: Monday 16 January 2017 Secretive mega shake-up of NHS could cost £15 million in management consultancy fees, claims Unite The cash-strapped NHS could be spending up to £15 million on management consultants for advice on the secretive shake-up of the health service in England, Unite, the country’s largest union, warned today (Monday 16 January). Unite, with 100,000 members in the health service, said that health secretary Jeremy Hunt needed ‘to come clean’ on the true cost of the expenditure on management consultants in relation to the 44 Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) for England. The union said another major reconfiguration of the NHS, following hard on the heels of the controversial Health and Social Care Act 2012, could see closures or relocations of local hospitals and A&E departments. Unite calculated the £15 million figure, after the media revealed that NHS chiefs in Coventry and Warwickshire had forked out £343,000 to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for advice on saving money in their local STP plan. If each of the 44 STPs spent a similar sum on management consultants, the figure could reach £15 million, as the NHS is enveloped in a winter crisis, reinforced by hard-hitting comments last week by the chief executive of NHS England, Simon Stevens on the level of funding the NHS had received from the Tory government. Unite national officer for health Sarah Carpenter said: “It is very disturbing news from Coventry and Warwickshire that the management consultants are again scooping up loads of taxpayers’ cash to proffer advice on the local STP. “If this sort of spending was extrapolated across the 44 STPs in England we are talking about a figure of £15 million – Unite is calling on Jeremy Hunt to come clean on how much management consultants are being paid for so-called advice on STPs. “Any such funds would be much better spent on frontline services, such as under pressure A&E departments, rather than on jargon-filled reports. “The NHS is reeling from a starvation of cash. The health service is at crisis point and we have not yet reached the worst of the winter weather. “Simon Stevens, the head of NHS England, is right to raise serious concerns at the insufficient level of NHS funding and an urgent financial injection into the health service is desperately needed.” The 44 STP ‘footprints’ for the disparate geographical areas each have their own plans, which were prepared by mainly local NHS apparatchiks with no public involvement. The limited public consultation process was due to start this month, with implementation expected later in the year. ENDS
Mia Mabel
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Re: Secretive mega shake-up of NHS could cost £15 mil
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17th Jan 2017 4:45pm
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Do you actually play golf? No, like the majority of Wirral residents.
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Re: Secretive mega shake-up of NHS could cost £15 mil
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18th Jan 2017 9:09am
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I had an aunt who was a hospital matron in the 1940s to 1950s. She ran the place like a dictator. No committees, no consultants, she terrified everyone into obedience, reducing ward sisters and doctors to tears if they transgressed. I was her favourite nephew and she terrified me too. She invited - well ordered - me to her hospital once. When I got there, I asked to see her and was asked why by the nurse who'd seen me wandering in. I explained i was the matron's nephew, and her response was a hertfelt "Oh, you poor thing!"
She, my aunt, had been a nurse in WW1 and knew what infection could do, so absolute hygiene was her obsession. She would run her fingers over the tops of doors or cupboards and if there was a hint of dust, someone would suffer from a tongue lashing from her.
I often wonder what she would have made of the unholy horde of management consultants that infest hospitals these days.
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Re: Secretive mega shake-up of NHS could cost £15 mil
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18th Jan 2017 9:42am
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Do you actually play golf? No, like the majority of Wirral residents. Ah, that explains your ignorance then. There's a reason there's so many golf courses on Merseyside, that's because they're some of the finest courses in the country. Just because they're located on your doorstep doesn't mean that they're for locals only. I know plenty of people all across the North who travel to Wirral to play, because they think the courses are exceptional. And that's why professional tournaments are held here, and bring in money: Open golf tournament brought £76 million boost to Wirral and Merseyside economy, report sayshttp://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/open-golf-tournament-brought-76-8064972The "majority of Wirral residents" don't use the ferries, or go to Tranmere Rovers. It doesn't mean they're not in demand. Try taking off your NIMBY blinkers and see the bigger picture.
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Re: Secretive mega shake-up of NHS could cost £15 mil
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18th Jan 2017 10:18am
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Ha ! Isn't that a strange one ? I know a number of people from Wirral, who go to Chester and North Wales to play. Maybe this is the thing to do. Socialise in different areas so no one knows your social History ! Make new business contacts etc. By the way £76m is only a figure put out by Press and PR dept. and it depends on how they calculate those figures. Most of it would have gone to Liverpool.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
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Re: Secretive mega shake-up of NHS could cost £15 mil
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19th Jan 2017 10:26am
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Does hiring a consultancy firm mean those at the top aren't doing the job they are being well paid for?. I do think those that do the hiring of one of those can pick and choose one that may do a report that may report very little wrong with how the hirer does their job. Firm believer that those that pay the piper pick the tune
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