The NHS has hired “lived experience” tsars on salaries of up to £115,000, despite ministers vowing a war on waste in the health service.
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is recruiting a director for lived experience who must have experiences of a life-altering health condition and “significant power imbalances” in their use of health services.
Its tsar will “ensure brave spaces” for people to give feedback and will be based at St George’s Hospital, Stafford, on a salary of £110,000-£115,000 per year – four times that of a newly qualified nurse or junior doctor.
Either line managers should have the power to do things or you should reorganise the organisation so that line managers have the power to do things.
The term “lived experience” always means that complete bollocks is being talked. Utterly devoid of any meaning whatsoever. You might as well have an “Entities Tsar”.
despite ministers vowing a war on waste in the health service.
No, it’s not “despite”, this is how the British system works.
You get to vote for any scumbag politician you like, and they get to lie to your face while the Deep State does whatever it was going to do anyway.
Sam – The term “lived experience” always means that complete bollocks
It usually means a fat black woman in colourful pyjamas raging about wypipo.
Will we be concerned with the lived experience of those who can’t see a GP or wait in A&E for interminable hours? Thought not.
I have yet to work out how you can have had an experience without living it, although I except that for some people their last experience of the NHS may involve dying.
Conclusive proof the NHS is managed by idiots. Either:
You don’t have enough money to deliver your primary goal, but are still spending money on non essentials;
Or you do have enough money to achieve your primary goal and to spend on non essentials. But despite that still aren’t achieving the primary goal.
Either way, Idiots in charge.
Arthur tC: I have yet to work out how you can have had an experience without living it
Yes, that’s a bit of a poser. It might be analagous to “living one’s own truth” which we know is imaginary and false.
I recall that one of Nigel Lawson’s arguments against the Poll Tax was that local councils would inevitably seize the opportunity to ramp up spending and blame all the consequences on central government changing the mechanism of raising revenue. By analogy, we now seem to have NHS insiders spending whatever they imagine they can get away with and blaming a Conservative government which, by its very nature, cannot be trusted to fund the NHS adequately.
Given that those are their incentives, it is perfectly rational for them to seek to make as much of the next two years as possible before they encounter Wes Streeting doing a Nixon to China (even if, so far, he sounds like he is inclined to get as far as Hawaii and then turn round and come home).
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@rhoda klapp
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@Alan Peakall – December 17, 2022 at 2:16 pm
I recall that one of Nigel Lawson’s arguments against the Poll Tax was that local councils would inevitably seize the opportunity to ramp up spending and blame all the consequences on central government changing the mechanism of raising revenue.
And he was dead right! Birmingham’s Labour-dominated council set the Poll Tax at such a level that had it all been collected it would have been twice the amount raised by “The Rates” in the previous year… And they managed to pass all the blame onto central government and the “eevil torees”.