Hundreds of NHS quangos to be scrapped
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3w4xl8gyyqo
Posted by Ambitious_Lan
Hundreds of NHS quangos to be scrapped
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3w4xl8gyyqo
Posted by Ambitious_Lan
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>In total 201 organisations will be scrapped, including bodies set up by the last Conservative government to develop health plans for their local areas.
That’s a lot of management structures that were being paid for by the taxpayer. [Management list](https://www.healthwatch.co.uk/our-staff) of just one. Whilst they look to have an important function of collating and analysing patient feedback, does it need that many people in management positions.
I work for the NHS and haven’t heard of any of the bodies listed.
From a “boots-on-the-ground” worker’s perspective, the only one I see to have any clout is the CQC. They have the power to coerce management into making improvements.
As someone who works in operations in the NHS. This statement is simply not true: “So many of the problems in the NHS come down to a failure to listen to patients.”
If it were up to some patients consultants would be handholding them from the GP surgery all the way through their time in hospital then tucking them into bed back at home.
It is true though that patient feedback should be more central and emphasised but make no mistake you absolutely need bodies in place who understand operational management and logistics better than Ann from Kettering. Yes there’s too many of these bodies which muddies the water, so they should be stripped back and made more efficient but some with specific expertise are more than required.
Hundreds to be scrapped but name 3
So have the others been announced?
I see labour are continuing the tradition of running the NHS into the ground for privatisation.
Quangos I can accept as long as the reasons for the quangos existence are gone.
What I can’t accept is linking hospital funding to performance based on patient review. “Here’s your cancer diagnosis don’t forget to leave a 5 star review.”. What happens when the patients issues were not even in the hospitals control? Hospitals are the last port of call on your healthcare journey should a hospital be required.
Why does it feel that we are having all these issues and other countries aren’t? It’s as if there is a country that has told us many times it wants a piece of our healthcare pie. Maybe this other country thinks that if it gets it’s hands on ours it will make it easy to go after others. Strange that isn’t it.
Whatever happened to Cameron’s “bonfire of the quangos” (that was when I first learned what a quango was.
Lets hope these departments have been told directly, and not finding out through the media again
As an NHS admin worker, I can confirm most of these quangos are invisible to frontline staff, but streamlining them could actually help if it means fewer bureaucratic hoops. That said, we still need oversight bodies like the CQC to keep management accountable without drowning us in red tape. Would love to see a clear list of which ones are actually getting axed, though.