Terrible alignment.
NHS budget has increased by around 1.4% per annum over the last decade as well as the recent covid boost`s & writing off historical debt.
What is the NHS budget and how is it funded? Find out in our nutshell.
www.kingsfund.org.uk
How it is spent is a glorious P**s pot of waste.
I`ve seen it time and time again, I have raised it in meetings and guess what? Nothing, because senior managers are purely in it to protect their positions.
Prime example our Trust employed a "specialist consultant" to sort out our procurement. £6k a week for 6 months. Achieved what? Nothing because the time it takes to get "stuff" through committee`s etc just killed his ideas.
More recently a Head of Dept left, she was on a very senior manager's (VSM) salary (£100k+) for 14 months her deputies picked up her work and things worked perfectly well. That says to me it is an unnecessary post and a hefty saving can be made. Nope - we employed a "head hunting agency" at additional cost to get another one.
Computers on Wheels - COWS, yes we had them, trendy looking carts that carried a laptop and keyboard from ward to ward for some teams or bed to bed on wards. That was 2 short years ago. They were around £650 each and we bought hundreds of them. There are still some sat in cupboards in the wrappers awaiting disposal.
All now replaced with iPads and iPhones.
And so it goes on...........
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/09/08/nhs-spends-millions-hiring-army-200000-bureaucrats/