At an open meeting of Wes Streeting’s DHSC staff today Amanda Pritchard announced another staff reduction for NHS England. 2,000 posts are up for the chop…
Pritchard said at the meeting: “We will be taking actions to make savings to support the front line over the coming year, and we’re going to do that by saving £150m of non-pay costs and by reducing staffing costs by a further £175 million. So that is the equivalent to about 15% of the new NHS England structure.”
That’s after a recent 35% headcount reduction. Guido hears there is chaos in the NHS as a result of the fresh announcement – no detail has been supplied to staff on which parts will see the new job cuts. The open meeting was held by the DHSC, not the NHS and no round communications were sent to the latter. Line managers and directors weren’t informed either. The Public Accounts Committee recently decreed “complacent” health staff to be lacking in dynamism – they’re up for the chop…
Streeting has been informing senior staff that they should look to Terrence Higgins Trust director Richard Angell for the best way to engage with him and the Department of Health. Leaving officials scratching their heads as Angell is known to have been a close mate of Streeing for years…
Sources tell Guido Streeting has been “whingeing” about negative criticism directed his way in recent months. It will only get worse as the spending review approaches…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”