FabSwingers.com forum: Chief Exec of privately run NHS hospital gets £400K leaving pressie

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-20672310

The news that Mr Parsa was leaving his post with nearly half a million quid came after the National Audit Office disclosed last month that the company had failed to deliver promised savings and that the hospital was more than £4m in debt - double the target level.

Without doubt there is room for big efficiency savings in the NHS but it looks like some people just see room to make tons of money for themselves.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Well said, but they all have their snouts in the trough these days I'm afraid, the people doing the shitty work (literally sometimes) get paid peanuts on 'renegotiated' contracts whilst the management line their pockets.

No problems paying big six figure salaries to top medical professionals, but some of these nhs service providers are just parasites imo.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

So thats where my pay rise had gone, again

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

This is a guy in charge of just one hospital. He received this money after six months in the job.

Unbelievable.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

This is the efficiency and cost effectiveness the private sector is bringing to the NHS. Stories like this and G4S and their Olympic shambles do nothing to sway the zeitgeist that private is efficient and effective and is better than public service delivery.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I've just looked back at some of the claims Circle made for improving healthcare and I'm not surprised they couldn't reduce the debt. It's not possible to provide healthcare that avoids working with sick people. You can number crunch as much as you like but other factors get in the way. Pesky people will always muck things up by having too much cancer or babies or being old.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"This is the efficiency and cost effectiveness the private sector is bringing to the NHS. Stories like this and G4S and their Olympic shambles do nothing to sway the zeitgeist that private is efficient and effective and is better than public service delivery."

Precisely, notice all these welfare 'reforms' and public service cuts being pushed through in the name of austerity; in reality it just gives the Government a good reason to implement policies that they wanted to do anyway even if he country wasn't broke.

(they have a point too in some cases, just I can guess where the real motivation comes from)

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By *rightloonMan
over a year ago

Stafford

40 years ago there were 400 senior managers in the NHS. There are now 70,000.

Nursing was traditionally an apprenticeship where you did your time arse wiping etc. Now Nursing is an academic subject that is studied.

Now we have key performance targets where you have to tick the box. If you do it and don't tick the box then you get punished. If you tick the box and don't do it then its fine as long as you don't get caught.

This has not only infected the NHS. I am an Engineer and I often find myself in "Malcolm Tucker" mode with some idiot who has no experience or appreciation for engineering attempting to run the show and demonstrating his incompetence in the process.

P.S. I have yet to use the post it note special from Mr Tucker:

"Please could you take this note, ram it up his hairy inbox and pin it to his fkn prostate."

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By *eavenNhellCouple
over a year ago

carrbrook stalybridge

and this suprises you in what way ?

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"and this suprises you in what way ?"

It doesn't surprise me - I questioned this move when it was being tendered.

Barnet Council has now outsourced most of its services to save money and I wonder how long that will be before that proves more of a cost than a saving. I would very pleased to be proved wrong but only time will tell.

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By *rightloonMan
over a year ago

Stafford

The experiments in outsourcing started by thatcher have been interesting...

At the simplest level and if a service or product is well understood plus the tendering process is carried out professionally by all parties then the results can be satisfying. A works canteen. A transport service etc is better done by a specialist.

Outsourcing of resource peak loping or where specialist skills are occasionally needed is also good.

Outsourcing to break up a physical monopoly like a railway or an electric cable etc is less clear though. I'm not sure I have ever been comfortable with the infrastructure of a country being broken up and sold to the highest bidder. Especially when you consider that the performance of that infrastructure has a direct bearing on the GDP growth of the country.

If we look at somebody like Toyota who outsource most of their parts we actually find that they hold an interest in each of their suppliers boards so they dilute their ownership but do not relinquish it completely.

I think these partnerships are going to be the way forward for the future and the pendulum might well swing back a little towards a bit more government control that we have had. They will certainly have to inspire the growth in this country somehow over the next decade.

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