Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Last year, I worked as a locum A+E junior doctor. I saw the fragmentation of the internal market and Health & Social Care Act first hand and soon realised who benefits from the coalition’s privatised healthcare designs – the privileged, not patients.
The overall spend on locum doctors is at an all-time high. It is particularly high in A&E departments and worsening. Spend on agency staff to fill medical rotas across hospitals has risen ‘exponentially’, Department of Health officials have told MPs on the influential Public Accounts Committee (PAC). The PAC’s new report released today reveals last year alone, agency spend jumped from £2.1billion to £2.6 billion.
It costs the public purse an average of £400,000 to train an emergency consultant, according to Margaret Hodge, Chair of the PAC.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournh...t-about-silent-privatisation-of-nhs-workforce
The overall spend on locum doctors is at an all-time high. It is particularly high in A&E departments and worsening. Spend on agency staff to fill medical rotas across hospitals has risen ‘exponentially’, Department of Health officials have told MPs on the influential Public Accounts Committee (PAC). The PAC’s new report released today reveals last year alone, agency spend jumped from £2.1billion to £2.6 billion.
It costs the public purse an average of £400,000 to train an emergency consultant, according to Margaret Hodge, Chair of the PAC.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournh...t-about-silent-privatisation-of-nhs-workforce