The Department of Health and Social Care has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (56363):
Question:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much and what proportion of the ÂŁ36 billion announced by the Government to tackle waiting lists as a result of the covid19 outbreak will be spent on the salaries of additional medical staff. (56363)
Tabled on: 15 October 2021
This question was grouped with the following question(s) for answer:
- To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many additional nurses and doctors he plans to recruit for his Department’s waiting list initiatives. (56708)
Tabled on: 15 October 2021
Answer:
Edward Argar:
The Department is working closely with NHS England and NHS Improvement to develop a plan for how that funding will be used, including the recruitment and salaries of additional medical staff.
The answer was submitted on 22 Oct 2021 at 10:44.
December 1, 2021
The posts advertised are for more managers and support staff not front line staff.
More top heavy jobs for the boys, patients are such a nuisance.
December 1, 2021
I see the department of business closures is refusing to guarantee a return on 1.6gw of efficient CCGT which is mothballed.
Once again Civil Serpents procedure put before common sense.
These 2 station at Severn and Sutton Bridge could make all the difference but hey ho just build more useless windmills.
Trump had the right idea.
December 2, 2021
So you don’t think we should waste money on administrators? You think people should just turn up at GPs and hospitals and queue? No need for an appointment, that’s just bureaucracy eh
December 2, 2021
You talk in absolutes TG
Who said no admin staff at all ?
December 2, 2021
Good administrators, yes. But the NHS is riddled with ineffectual administrators and I have seen this first hand. It is time for reform and a target setting for administrators.
December 1, 2021
So one week later the answer is ‘no idea, we will have to discuss it’.
Brilliant.
December 2, 2021
You would think that, when needing more money you would have identified FIRST on what you were going to spend it on, wouldn’t you ?
It is like looking at the Labour government of the 1970’s – Just throw more cash at it and hope the problem / moaning goes away.
December 2, 2021
Totally agree Mark. Just keep chucking more and more taxpayers money at the problem without bothering to identify the problem has always been the response of wasteful socialist Governments, this one included.
December 1, 2021
Does medical staff include all the diversity directors they were advertising for the other day?
December 1, 2021
Again let’s shovel taxpayers’ cash into the NHS black hole and hope it helps. For goodness sake, let’s change this rotten 3 party system by introducing number 4.
December 1, 2021
and make membership of the first three illegal?
December 2, 2021
It’s impossible. Nigel’s party got 4 million votes and one retained seat. Scots Nats get less and form a government.
December 2, 2021
‘form a government’ – – -or a spending machine …..oh! ummm… looking at Westmonster…
December 1, 2021
I suppose there is a big difference between what they actually spend the money on and what they should spend it on.
I’d put my money on huge batches of every ooky vaccine under the sun and hot tubs. Oh and draylon upcycled seating in every waiting room.
HOW many excess non covid deaths this year? Everyone comfortable with that?
December 1, 2021
Can I wish everyone Happy Advent, one thing being we can now play Christmas Music like the BEAUTIFUL + POWERFUL Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (Bach: Christmas Oratorio BWV 248, part 1/2).
This music sums up what traditional Christianity attempts to do on the world, to bring: ORDER, MYSTERY, BEAUTY, HOLY POWER, PEACE, JOY, EXCITEMENT, CIVILISATION, LOVE, etc ..
It was lovely, devout traditional Christians (mixed with the best of the Greco-Roman world which Traditional Christianity has always integrated as being part of the spirit of Traditional Christianity), like the great Bach, that gave us Oxford, Salisbury Cathedral, Salzburg, Mozart, Parliament, The Renaissance, Guilds / Work Ethic, Family Values, Shakespeare, The Judiciary, Da Vinci, Sir Isaac Newton, The Monarchy, Patriotism, and so on. Where there is hierarchy but those at the bottom aren’t envious of those at the top and work hard and those at the top don’t look down on those at the bottom and are as fair-minded as possible in employment and everything else.
For God, Family, Queen and Country
December 2, 2021
‘the best of the Greco-Roman world’ i.e. Roman Architecture / Engineering / Law / Administration, Homer, Plato, Aristotle, the finest qualities of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and others etc as opposed to cruelty of Roman Emperors such as Nero and Commodus, Roman traditions of incest, indulging the mob and so on.
December 1, 2021
In an NHS hospital (torn down for housing) where a relative worked, they did away with their “infection policy” in favour of bubble bath.( No idea what they did with it but…)
No wonder we are where we are now!
December 1, 2021
But…but…aren’t the infinitely wise ones planning to sack a load of NHS staff for non submission to the jab?
Why is govt so keen to save us with a jab when they reduce staff and withhold healthcare?
Why do they believe that the jab has any bearing whatsoever on anyone other than the jabbed?
Is the idea to take on more staff at lower rates?
December 1, 2021
Ah ha!
Is govt. desperate to jab us because if we all got sick nobody would be able to work and the economy would crash and hospitals would have to close and there’d be no dentists open, no vets, no local shops.. and…and…
Oh!!
December 2, 2021
+1
I just keep asking myself, Everhopeful; “When will this madness end ?” I really do !
December 1, 2021
Once again what a stupid answer, the correct one is:
We have absolutely no idea, but it sounds good !
I despair, I absolutely despair.
Thanks for asking the question JR.
December 1, 2021
The response basically means “we haven’t got a scooby-doo.”
Which conveniently also sums up this Government’s entire programme. What a useless bunch of Peppa Pigs they are.
December 2, 2021
+1
December 1, 2021
the answer is funny
a complete non answer
not even an estimate
clueless
December 2, 2021
+1
December 1, 2021
So lets rise taxes, collect revenue, allocate budgets, announce spend, than and only than decide what you’re going to do with the funds…..crazy
December 1, 2021
So the Department has no concept of planning and budgetary control – give us a huge chunk of money then we shall tell you how we have spent it!
I wish I could be so frivolous with other peoples money knowing that I shall never be held to account.
Incompetents – all of them!
December 2, 2021
+1
December 1, 2021
So we learn about the Department of Health as we have learnt about other parts of this Government: no-one is in charge, no-one knows, no-one has a grip on matters – but there is plenty of money to splash around or at least announce will be so splashed. It might fool some of the people for a while, but likely not enough.
December 1, 2021
“The Department of Health and Social Care has provided the following answer …”
and
“The Department is working closely with NHS England and NHS Improvement to develop a plan … ”
It is not entirely clear to me why we have three Government Departments and what roles are performed by each of those departments in order to develop only one plan.
December 2, 2021
Sir .. was your question addressed to the wrong person ?
Maybe the “plan” has already been devised by Mr Sunak and HM Treasury. After all, they decided exactly how much extra money is to be extracted from us taxpayers.
December 2, 2021
What kind of management agrees to allocate a huge amount of money and then thinks about what to spend it on ? The bureaucratic tail is wagging the elected dog.
Just paying GPs per patient seen would increase productivity overnight. This government has no understanding of incentives, just more and more regulation.
December 2, 2021
Yet another case of a government throwing shed loads of our money at the NHS just for the sake of it.
This has been going on since Blair and Brown and has led to billions being poorly spent or wasted.
The NHS must stop being considered to be a sacred cow, it is a public service like any other. If it wants extra cash, is needs to prepare a case with specific agreed outcomes in return for the money and those that design and then manage the implementation of the programme must remain acccountable for how the cash is spent and the measurment of the results against their plan. Failure must lead to sackings.
No shareholders of any business would possibly put up with their money being spent like this !
Nor should we.
December 2, 2021
It does not give such good outcomes or value for money as some countries on the Continent do, certainly.
That could easily be used as a pretext to scrap it, and it would be justified, if the same system as is used in one of those countries were introduced to replace it.
However, we *know* that that would not be done, and that what would be introduced instead would not be one of those, but rather, some US/Tufton Street right wing “think tank” – pressure group actually – doctrinaire mish-mash, which would be desperately WORSE in both regards, as is the US “system”.
You raise points which do require proper analysis though.
Perhaps it would be best to wait until the country has a proper government – if it ever does again.
December 2, 2021
‘It does not give such good outcomes or value for money as some countries on the Continent do’.
Ridiculous remarks, broad unsubstantiated, pipe-dreaming nonsense.
Evidence please, not wild childish green-field postulating.
December 3, 2021
Oh well, it must be the best in the world then, so let’s keep it.
December 3, 2021
Even gentle reform towards the models of the current best world Heath systems is not going to happen under Labour nor Conservative government.
The NHS is a religion and change or reform is a heresy.
All that will be done is to donate ever more billions.
December 2, 2021
During the election campaign the Prime Minister spoke of 50,000 additional nurses. Is there any reason to depart from that? What is the unit cost? At a guess, ÂŁ30,000 per annum each plus training costs and overheads. The salary portion alone is therefore ÂŁ1,500 million per annum. Double that gives ÂŁ3 billion per annum. It might well be more. Therefore, the question to ask is “How many years is the ÂŁ36 billion meant to cover?”.
December 2, 2021
Good morning – again
It will be wasted along with all the rest.
December 3, 2021
Distributed among the mates of the circle – – don’t call that a waste – there is a better word for it!
December 2, 2021
Ademdum
Sir John
Since they do not know what to do with the money, would it be better to say; “Well since you really do not need it, we’re take it back !”
December 2, 2021
What a joke! They can’t even answer a simple question.
CLEARLY THEY DO NOT KNOW.
Is this rank stupidity or rank incompetence — or are they deliberately keeping data from scrutiny?
December 2, 2021
Off topic, according to EU negotiator Maros Sefcovic the benefits of the Irish protocol are “immense”:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/maros-sefcovic-brexit-european-commission-government-executive-committee-b969483.html
“… the benefits of the protocol are “immense”, offering Northern Ireland access to EU and UK markets.”
So we are to suppose that businesses in the rest of the UK now have no access at all to the EU market, they have been completely cut off from that market, they can no longer sell any of their products in the EU; but because the Prime Minister, recently described as “passionate about the United Kingdom”, decided to leave Northern Ireland behind under EU economic rule for the sake of his “fantastic” trade deal with the EU the small minority of businesses in the province who are used to exporting goods to the EU are free to carry on doing so without too much formality, and that is an “immense” benefit, like the “fantastic” trade deal.
December 3, 2021
When a bunch of lunatics jump off a cliff, then reasonable people are content to be “left behind”, and walk away to safety.
December 3, 2021
So you still believe the UK is cut off from European markets NHL
You need to do some checking.
December 2, 2021
I find it incredible that the House of Commons should have voted to pay this money to the NHS in the absence of any plan as to how it should be spent and therefor without any knowledge of whether it was actually needed. MPs are there to provide a check on the profligacy of Ministers, not just to sign blank cheques in their favour.
December 2, 2021
If the BBC wants to do something useful, then it could put together an interesting and creative body of programmes (from the arts to nature to science and so on) about what a wonderful thing the human body is and how to look after it. If people looked after their bodies and minds more, through more healthy eating and exercise, this could save the NHS billions and billions and save the country hours and hours and hours in productivity.
Eating healthily and taking good exercise also makes people HAPPIER as fills the brain with happy chemicals. Which in turn has positive psychological affects in addition to. This, in turn, reduces crime, makes people more creative, improves their s-x lives and relationships in general. The benefits are endless.
People should be free to eat what they want and take no exercise. But that does not mean we’re not allowed to encouraged to help people eat more healthy and take more exercise – something that ALL can participate in, rich and poor.
I strongly believe government has to look more creatively into how to prevent ill health as opposed to just focusing on how to deal with it when it happens.
December 2, 2021
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/hospital-pass-the-nhs-is-on-life-support
December 3, 2021
“Director of Equality and Inclusion” at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, who’ll start early next year on a minimum wage of ÂŁ93,735 – order order
Thats were all the money goes