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Jeremy Hunt is to tell the NHS to save £10bn a year by using fewer temporary staff and management consultants, selling off unused buildings and reducing drug errors.
The health secretary will warn an audience of NHS leaders on Thurday that the service must undertake a “fundamental rethink” of how it spends its £110bn budget in order to remain viable in the face of unprecedented demand for care.
He will demand action to tackle the soaring cost of hospitals’ use of temporary staff – mainly nurses – who have been supplied by employment agencies to cover shifts in order to ensure wards are fully-staffed and patients receive good quality care.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/13/nhs-temporary-staff-land-save-billions-jeremy-hunt
I'm certainly not against saving money on avoidable expenses, but what the government don't seem to understand is that they are making a career in the NHS so unattractive due to the enormous pressures and bad-mouthing they have heaped on it (and denying independently-recommended pay rises) that recruitment must be extremely difficult. You can't have it both ways
The health secretary will warn an audience of NHS leaders on Thurday that the service must undertake a “fundamental rethink” of how it spends its £110bn budget in order to remain viable in the face of unprecedented demand for care.
He will demand action to tackle the soaring cost of hospitals’ use of temporary staff – mainly nurses – who have been supplied by employment agencies to cover shifts in order to ensure wards are fully-staffed and patients receive good quality care.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/13/nhs-temporary-staff-land-save-billions-jeremy-hunt
I'm certainly not against saving money on avoidable expenses, but what the government don't seem to understand is that they are making a career in the NHS so unattractive due to the enormous pressures and bad-mouthing they have heaped on it (and denying independently-recommended pay rises) that recruitment must be extremely difficult. You can't have it both ways