NHS England health chiefs announce 40% of jobs will be cut next year –

Healthcare leaders cut up to 8,000 non-frontline NHS jobs as part of a “deny and wake up” approach to healthcare.

NHS England Chief Executive Amanda Pritchard has announced plans to cut 30 to 40 percent of jobs in three health care institutions by 2024.

The move will create 6,000 to 8,000 of the 20,000 jobs in NHS Digital and Health Education England (HEE), which are responsible for staff training.

The two central agencies have been merged into NHS England to reduce duplication and save up to £1bn over five years.

Voluntary layoffs for staff will be introduced this fall, along with hiring restrictions for “immediately effective” positions, Pritchard said.

It comes after the recently deceased Health Minister Sajid Javid pledged last month to eliminate “waste or vigilance” in the NHS.

His word was followed by a controversial 1.25% increase in social security to pay more for healthcare.

Past attempts to reduce bureaucracy and dual roles in the NHS have cost taxpayers billions of dollars in healthcare payments alone to reactivate them.

In 2019, it was revealed that the NHS paid around £500m severance packages to the more than 8,000 employees it later hired.

In a note to staff today, Pritchard said the changes will lead to “a more agile organization that responds flexibly and quickly to changing needs, priorities and opportunities.”

It is not yet clear which staff will be sacked.

However, he is following an order earlier this month from Mr Javid to the NHS to cut “diversity and inclusion” executives, saying their £115,000 salaries would be better spent on the front.

NHS Digital has recently been criticized for imposing wake-up language on NHS online resources following a series of MailOnline disclosures.

It was revealed last month that the body removed the terms “female” and “female” from NHS guidelines for menopause and uterine cancer.

NHS Digital justified the change, saying it wanted the language to be “inclusive and respectful”.

The job cuts come after government figures released earlier this year revealed that a total of 50 NHS England workers earned more than £150,000 in September last year.

Pritchard is one of them, who earns between £255,000 and £260,000, according to the government’s list of public sector salaries.

It’s £60,000 more than before, a revelation that raises eyebrows when it was discovered in February.

Figures show that as of September last year, a total of 50 NHS England workers earned more than £150,000.

Last month, a major independent NHS investigation led by Sir Gordon Messenger, a former military leader, found that leadership in health care was “institutionally inadequate”.

Healthcare managers are under pressure to prove they offer value for taxpayers’ money amid a cost-of-living crisis, huge NHS waiting lists and bloated emergency services.

A record 6.5 million people in the UK are preparing for routine treatment and that number is expected to continue to rise for another two years as patients return to the NHS following delays during the pandemic.

Hundreds of thousands of patients have been waiting for over a year, and hospitals are struggling to fulfill the government’s promise to end the two-year waiting period by the end of this month.

Waiting times for the emergency room are also a big problem, as more than 19,000 patients go to the emergency room and wait 12 hours or more to find a bed, in conditions described by experts as “inhumane”.

Official NHS statistics show one in nine (6.48 million) people lining up for elective surgeries such as hip and knee replacements and cataract surgery in April, an increase from 6.36 million blocked in March. There are now 323,093 people waiting for surgery for more than a year, up 5.5 percent, and 12,735 people seeking treatment for over two years, a quarterly decline.

Less than three-quarters of patients are seen within four hours of arriving in the cramped emergency room.

Meanwhile, ambulance performance data for May shows ambulances take an average of 39 minutes and 58 seconds to answer category two calls, such as burns, epilepsy and strokes, twice the 18-minute target.

Response times for category three calls, such as late stages of labor, minor burns, and diabetes, averaged two hours, nine minutes, and 32 seconds.

Ambulances should arrive within two hours, three-tenths of nine calls in nine categories.