margarete Posted October 29, 2011 Posted October 29, 2011 A series of NHS executives who quit their posts with lucrative payoffs have been re-employed on temporary contracts worth thousand of pounds a day. See this.
Balpin Posted October 29, 2011 Posted October 29, 2011 They have retired. They only need to be retired one day Then can then come back on a full contract. Dont knock these contracts They are contracts and must be followed. It is the rest of the private sector who are fools for not getting such good contracts,blame yourselves for not being unioniesd not us.
OOmpa Posted October 29, 2011 Posted October 29, 2011 A series of NHS executives who quit their posts with lucrative payoffs have been re-employed on temporary contracts worth thousand of pounds a day. See this. Its not just the NHS, lots of companies do it !
tinfoilhat Posted October 29, 2011 Posted October 29, 2011 Councils do it too, often with employees a fair way down the pay scale.
margarete Posted October 29, 2011 Author Posted October 29, 2011 Extract: "Barnsley Hospital Foundation trust paid Paul O'Connor £298,000 to be interim chief executive for nine months from June 2010; a daily rate of £1,600, before he was given the job permanently, at a salary of between £145,000 and £150,000. The year before he was forced to resign as head of Birmingham Children's Hospital Foundation trust, two weeks before a damning report was published by the Healthcare Commission, which said the hospital was putting children's safety at risk. The review was triggered by a secret report by the hospital's own consultants, who said some services were worse than those in the developing world, and that doctors had stopped reporting the dangers, because of a lack of response from managers. "
Balpin Posted October 29, 2011 Posted October 29, 2011 Things will only get worse with PFI and it is already bad.
Rupert_Baehr Posted October 30, 2011 Posted October 30, 2011 Should they earn pennies' How much do you think the people who work there should be paid?
Balpin Posted October 30, 2011 Posted October 30, 2011 Should they earn pennies' How much do you think the people who work there should be paid? When a man retires and is a pensioner, that should be it, in a service. He should by then have passed on all his knowlege to a younger man to take his place. If required, he should be brought back in to give his input, but only on a pro rata basis. To retire, then come back full time is wrong, and is doing younger men out of work.
Ms Macbeth Posted October 30, 2011 Posted October 30, 2011 Should they earn pennies' How much do you think the people who work there should be paid? I don't think its about how much they should earn. Its about organisations like the NHS getting value for money. The NHS is the largest employer in the UK (funded by all of us) yet it appears to be beyond their capability to employ the necessary capable managers in the top jobs. People who retire on seriously generous pensions should really not be re-employed by those paying their pensions. If they can get consultancy work in the private sector, fair enough. The NHS needs to concentrate on ensuring it pays nurses and other caring staff decent salaries, return much of the patient management to clinically trained staff, and remove several layers of non-clinical 'management'. IMO there has been too much time has been spent measuring performance in the public sector, and not enough time spent on improving it where it matters.
Balpin Posted October 30, 2011 Posted October 30, 2011 I don't think its about how much they should earn. Its about organisations like the NHS getting value for money. The NHS is the largest employer in the UK (funded by all of us) yet it appears to be beyond their capability to employ the necessary capable managers in the top jobs. People who retire on seriously generous pensions should really not be re-employed by those paying their pensions. If they can get consultancy work in the private sector, fair enough. The NHS needs to concentrate on ensuring it pays nurses and other caring staff decent salaries, return much of the patient management to clinically trained staff, and remove several layers of non-clinical 'management'. IMO there has been too much time has been spent measuring performance in the public sector, and not enough time spent on improving it where it matters. Nurses are paid well enough at present, for what they do. It is the ancilliary staff that need the extra pay. They are run ragged at present by nurses who think they are above nursing. I have seen them expected to change up to 60 beds in a morning, with all the fetching and carrying that entails, between 2 of them Engineers, getting up to 50 to 60 reactive works orders in one day, along with over a thousand maintenance orders in a month. Dont forget, a hospital cannot run without its infrastructure. Surgeons will cancell their lists at a moments notice, the heartless b******* The NHS is stretched to bursting at present, any more cuts and it will be goodbye.
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