The NHS has been taking a bit of a battering in the press lately, with reports that hospitals are trying to defy the Supreme Court ruling on biological sex and are fast-tracking ethnic minorities to top jobs to meet diversity quotas. Predictably, some of these schemes don’t come cheap…
UK DOGE’s The Waste Files has uncovered that the United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust – which runs four hospitals across Lincolnshire – has awarded a thumping £70,000 one-year contract for a ‘BME (Black, Minority Ethnic) Leadership and Talent Programme’ to one consultant, Joan Myers, for “training for BME Leadership”. The programme is supposedly dedicated to establishing a “truly diverse” NHS leadership by “strengthening the voice of black and minority ethnic communities”. Among its offerings: a bi-monthly “anti-racism” bulletin, “safe spaces” for discussing shared experiences, and leadership development sessions exclusively for BME members. Life-saving stuff…
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The taxpayer may have a view on which should be prioritised. UK DOGE recommends costs are cut here…
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was asked if Burnham will take Britain back into the EU:
“Yes, sure – his commitment is authentic. He really does understand from the grassroots up why restoring what I think of as normality in our continent is vital for every party economically, politically, culturally, in terms of security, and he’s able to articulate it in language that people can understand. So yeah, he is definitely”.