Gregory's ServerWhilst I am not in any way in favour of the privatization of healthcare services, the current privatization drive may nevertheless result in the massive slimming down of the hugely overweight bureaucracy currently absorbing a disproportionate percentage of the NHS budget!
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@Paulos_the_fog @ChrisMayLA6 A disproportionate percentage of the NHS budget is spent on servicing PFI debt. Yet another example of private sector taking from the NHS. Am not at all convinced anything will improve with yet more private involvement. @Paulos_the_fog @IndyRichard @ChrisMayLA6 Managers make up just less than 3% of NHS workforce. Recent research by Institute for Public Policy Research suggested that the healthcare sector is under-managed, and this increases the burden of bureaucracy that falls on frontline professionals. @Lassielmr @Paulos_the_fog @IndyRichard Thanks, a little counter-intuitive, but I'm sure that's right - so then the Q. is what sort of management is actually taking place - clinical administration, or the required admin to make the 'internal market' work?  @Lassielmr @Paulos_the_fog @IndyRichard @ChrisMayLA6 Excellent so all those middle managers universities don't need could move into the NHS and solve two problems at once. |
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Hmmm... well, as I understand it, the bloated bureaucracy is directly linked to putting in places & maintaining the conditions for an 'internal market' in the NHS.... my guess is like US healthcare, more 'privitaisation' will result in more managers not less....