Apparently, according to a report published by a cross party Parliamentary committee, the NHS faces a massive problem with a lack of clinical staff. There is the report said a shortage of GP’s, nurses and midwives.
It is of course disgraceful that the NHS doesn’t have enough medical staff to deal with the workload but it is even more disgusting that money that could be used to pay for such clinical staff is being used to pay for diversity and inclusion and other non-jobs of the sort pictured below that are still being advertised
Image from Old Holborn Twitter
Yes, but you have failed to provide us with a pie chart, for instance, to indicate what proportion of the NHS budget actually goes into diversity programmes. And if that spending actually pays for itself, i.e. improving recruitment?
One figure I’ve seen is that the NHS spends at least £12 million per year on diversity managers. The real figure when taking into account that these managers will have people that they manage and internal empires they have to run is likely to be much higher. Whilst this represents a small proportion of NHS wages and salaries that doesn’t change the fact that this money might be better spent elsewhere, especially as the NHS is allegedly short of clinical staff.