Saturday 21 January 2023
It would be suspicious if they didn't
NHS England boss: Repeated strikes make workload more challenging
Strikes by health staff are making workloads "more challenging" to handle, NHS England's chief executive has acknowledged.
Amanda Pritchard told the BBC that the ongoing industrial action is "clearly having an impact".
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"In fact", she said, "I'll almost be glad to get back to normal. There are fewer phone calls from the press to deal with and I can carry on blaming underfunding rather than the striking staff. And when most of them get back to work we can complete the diversity survey..."
And there you have it... if only the comment had been about delivering patient care being more difficult rather than workloads being more challenging...
From chatGPT: The quote "if you are not paying for the product then you are the product" means that if a service or product is offered to you for free, then the company is not making money from you directly. Instead, they are likely using your data or attention to generate revenue through advertising or other means. In other words, you are the product that is being sold to others.
In the case of the NHS you do pay for the product at a remove, but not at the point of use. Arguably the NHS consumers are being used to justify pay for NHS staff and administrators. And since the NHS try to convince you to not shop around you are a captive audience.
Sam - absolutely, that diversity survey has been on the back burner for too long already and we haven't even begun to tackle the issues it is required to raise.
DJ - yes, the NHS does try to convince us not to shop around, although it knows most of us only do that in exceptional cases because of the cost. As you say, NHS consumers are being used to justify pay for NHS staff and administrators. I visited our local hospital recently for a routine scan and as usual came away with the strong impression that the NHS is all about the staff, not the patients.
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