Lex Luthor 10 #13 Posted April 1, 2020 19 minutes ago, the_bloke said: Only because the Health Secretary told them to. It shouldn't take a minister to tell the NHS that they are 20 years out of date should it? How many of these high salaried trust managers over the last 20, 30 years have looked at the communications budget for their trust and thought 'excellent work, all these fax machines and dedicated phone lines are great value for taxpayers money, lets stick with using them'? I assume they all did! The thing is, central government should know if these high-salaried managers are value for money. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Parvo 13 #14 Posted April 2, 2020 (edited) 🎠 Edited April 2, 2020 by Parvo changed my mind about getting involved in discussion Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Longcol 593 #15 Posted April 2, 2020 On 31/03/2020 at 10:26, El Cid said: Lord Carter's review of efficiency in hospitals suggests how large savings can be made by the NHS. The final report, Productivity in NHS hospitals, sets out how non-specialist acute trusts can reduce unwarranted variation in productivity and efficiency to save the NHS £5 billion each year by 2020/21. In his review of NHS spending, Carter argued that the NHS in England could save £5bn a year through better staff organisation and an improved approach to purchasing. So they could perhaps save less than 4% of the NHS budget. Naturally no private sector firm "wastes" this much - lol. I see one of the recommendations is to reduce stock of medicines to 15 days. That would be really useful in a situation like we're in now...................................not. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Halibut 12 #16 Posted April 3, 2020 A thread about efficiency in hospitals - quite extraordinary. A bit like passengers on the Titanic complaining that the crew aren't pulling their weight. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Chez2 10 #17 Posted April 3, 2020 7 hours ago, Halibut said: A thread about efficiency in hospitals - quite extraordinary. A bit like passengers on the Titanic complaining that the crew aren't pulling their weight. You must have seen inefficiency in Hospitals first hand? I can quote you several instances, two of which were very recent. My niece went in for pre op then phoned just before the six weeks were up to ask if they had a date for her op. They told her they had no record of her attending the Hospital or being in the system. She still lives in the Town she was born in. LOL. What a waste of money to go round the loop again. Mum in law had pre op with a rough date in mind for her op. They then kept telling her there were not beds but they set the pre op date with bed space in mind. That was earlier this year for both of them, before all the COVID issue arose. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Halibut 12 #18 Posted April 3, 2020 59 minutes ago, Chez2 said: You must have seen inefficiency in Hospitals first hand? I can quote you several instances, two of which were very recent. My niece went in for pre op then phoned just before the six weeks were up to ask if they had a date for her op. They told her they had no record of her attending the Hospital or being in the system. She still lives in the Town she was born in. LOL. What a waste of money to go round the loop again. Mum in law had pre op with a rough date in mind for her op. They then kept telling her there were not beds but they set the pre op date with bed space in mind. That was earlier this year for both of them, before all the COVID issue arose. I'm not claiming it doesn't exist - my point is that starting a thread about it now, in the current context, is frankly bizarre. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
ECCOnoob 1,016 #19 Posted April 3, 2020 (edited) I can't think of any better context to raise it. The NHS has been front and centre of all the headlines for weeks. We have had all the sob stories and the "inside sources" and the sad face photo opportunities and the finger pointing and vile abusive commentry about the government's failures and the celebrity endorsements and of course now the silly Thursday night Instagram get together and trendy Twitter hashtag ritual. Its a completely valid point to raise the topic of efficiencies within the organisation too. We see and hear all the screams that the organisation is underfunded, undersupplied and can't cope. We get at least annually the dramatic headline that it's on the brink of collapse all at the hands of this Tory government..... Oh how we've heard that so many times..... But god forbid any media outlet who dares to look a bit closer to home and brings up the issue that it's own operational approaches are far from perfect. Strangely, thats always a story that gets shouted down. Well quite frankly it shouldn't be. Is the NHS is on the brink as we keep hearing? Or is it bad management, bad allocation of resources and wasteful actions? These are genuine questions which should quite rightly be asked - even more so when there's a crisis like this - so if inefficiencies are found that can be nipped in the bud right now. Edited April 3, 2020 by ECCOnoob Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...