The Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are looking for an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Co-ordinator on £46,148 to £52,809 a year.
NHS England employs 800 diversity and inclusion officers, at a direct salary cost of £40million a year
(Thanks to David Craig for TCW)
Great that they can spend that much money on something so important to patients. In Aberystwyth we need radiologists and people to interpret scans
One area worth investigating is IT. I have been referred recently to two hospitals by my GP practice. Each has its own privately curated platform for booking, communications, documents, etc. One is 'MyChart', (Royal Brompton, Bart's & London), the other is 'DrDoctor' (Moorfields). They don't talk to each other, need two-stage authentication each time, are complex and tricky. My GP practice has its own website, equally tricky and often not working. Then there is 'Patient Access' - which has to be used to get repeat prescriptions. On top of this is the main NHS app, which duplicates a lot of the alerts from these various platforms, but not all - so it's tough to keep up. Now my GP practise has imposed its own separate platform for document management and some, but not all, tasks. It's called 'Patients Know Best'. There's a complex two-stage authentication system you have to enable to permissively link your GP records, your NHS (?) records and this new system. I've tried three times now, twice going in to the surgery to get new printed-out codes. It's clear from the junior receptionists they haven't a clue what it is or how to make it work. The more senior ones nod, print out another code and suggest I try again as there are 'teething problems'. All the links, SMS messages, alerts come on a smartphone, but trying to use a link on a small screen, with two-stage authentication, needs a pact with Satan himself. Exit from the app or platform, get the 6 digit code, and find that the app has closed itself down and you have to start again. This is for one patient in one practice who's tech literate. What people without smartphones do, or those without English and IT as first languages, I don't know. There must be thousands of IT people, consultants and so on flogging this stuff. Why isn't it all one system? Why is there so much duplication - I get the same text from the hospital system, NHS and the GP surgery. All have to be opened to alert the sender that attention has been paid, otherwise they keep on coming. This all in addition to scores of unwanted text messages about stop smoking, diabetes, 'wellness', diet, loneliness, mental health, exercise and more - again all duplicated as they come both from NHS and the GP surgery. The latest flood is flu and covid. I've had these, but the "you must make the appointment to get your...." texts keep on coming. Multiply this by, well you have the stats, and work out what the overt cost is, then the time-waste cost.
Someone, somewhere who undoubtedly shall remain eternally nameless, ‘lost to error and fraud’ £4.5 billion in the UK recently. Anyone interested where that went?
“An estimated £4.5bn in Covid-19 support has been lost to error and fraud since 2020, the tax authority has revealed. The money was handed out through schemes to help households and businesses cope with the economic fallout of the pandemic. The scale of the money lost was detailed in a letter to a committee of MPs overseeing government spending. The letter says the estimate of £4.5bn did not count money recovered by the UK's tax authority, HMRC. During the pandemic the government spent billions on a package of support to keep the economy afloat when lockdown restrictions were in place. Last year a forecast, external by the UK's official economic analyst, the Office for Budget Responsibility, estimated the total cost of pandemic-related rescue measures to be £310bn. “
The wait will be worth it💕
The Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are looking for an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Co-ordinator on £46,148 to £52,809 a year.
NHS England employs 800 diversity and inclusion officers, at a direct salary cost of £40million a year
(Thanks to David Craig for TCW)
Great that they can spend that much money on something so important to patients. In Aberystwyth we need radiologists and people to interpret scans
One area worth investigating is IT. I have been referred recently to two hospitals by my GP practice. Each has its own privately curated platform for booking, communications, documents, etc. One is 'MyChart', (Royal Brompton, Bart's & London), the other is 'DrDoctor' (Moorfields). They don't talk to each other, need two-stage authentication each time, are complex and tricky. My GP practice has its own website, equally tricky and often not working. Then there is 'Patient Access' - which has to be used to get repeat prescriptions. On top of this is the main NHS app, which duplicates a lot of the alerts from these various platforms, but not all - so it's tough to keep up. Now my GP practise has imposed its own separate platform for document management and some, but not all, tasks. It's called 'Patients Know Best'. There's a complex two-stage authentication system you have to enable to permissively link your GP records, your NHS (?) records and this new system. I've tried three times now, twice going in to the surgery to get new printed-out codes. It's clear from the junior receptionists they haven't a clue what it is or how to make it work. The more senior ones nod, print out another code and suggest I try again as there are 'teething problems'. All the links, SMS messages, alerts come on a smartphone, but trying to use a link on a small screen, with two-stage authentication, needs a pact with Satan himself. Exit from the app or platform, get the 6 digit code, and find that the app has closed itself down and you have to start again. This is for one patient in one practice who's tech literate. What people without smartphones do, or those without English and IT as first languages, I don't know. There must be thousands of IT people, consultants and so on flogging this stuff. Why isn't it all one system? Why is there so much duplication - I get the same text from the hospital system, NHS and the GP surgery. All have to be opened to alert the sender that attention has been paid, otherwise they keep on coming. This all in addition to scores of unwanted text messages about stop smoking, diabetes, 'wellness', diet, loneliness, mental health, exercise and more - again all duplicated as they come both from NHS and the GP surgery. The latest flood is flu and covid. I've had these, but the "you must make the appointment to get your...." texts keep on coming. Multiply this by, well you have the stats, and work out what the overt cost is, then the time-waste cost.
Someone, somewhere who undoubtedly shall remain eternally nameless, ‘lost to error and fraud’ £4.5 billion in the UK recently. Anyone interested where that went?
“An estimated £4.5bn in Covid-19 support has been lost to error and fraud since 2020, the tax authority has revealed. The money was handed out through schemes to help households and businesses cope with the economic fallout of the pandemic. The scale of the money lost was detailed in a letter to a committee of MPs overseeing government spending. The letter says the estimate of £4.5bn did not count money recovered by the UK's tax authority, HMRC. During the pandemic the government spent billions on a package of support to keep the economy afloat when lockdown restrictions were in place. Last year a forecast, external by the UK's official economic analyst, the Office for Budget Responsibility, estimated the total cost of pandemic-related rescue measures to be £310bn. “
17 January 2023
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64304428