tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462652546051300479.post4741428601195733378..comments2024-02-13T00:08:04.640+00:00Comments on NHS Vault: When it comes to hypocrisy, Lib Dems are the Mastersrichard.bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10589364986804437392noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462652546051300479.post-46861313535683246042011-09-02T10:05:29.523+01:002011-09-02T10:05:29.523+01:00@Anonymous
OK here are some facts taken the lates...@Anonymous<br /><br />OK here are some facts taken the latest annual report for Imperial College FT.<br /><br />Income: £920m<br />Chief Exec (Stephen Smith) £190k - £195k<br /><br />I am not an expert in running a billion pound organisation that employs almost 10,000 staff, but I bet you'll not find a single private sector company where the chief exec is paid as little as £200k. <br /><br />You mention a Brigadier, where the average salary is about £40k and who command 3k soldiers (fewer staff, of course, than Imperial College FT) and who handle a much lower budget. I would suggest that the issue is that a Brigadier is not paid enough (a good place to start would be the average pay of a private sector chief exec for a company that employs 3k staff), not that the chief executive is paid too much. <br /><br />"Have we, as a Nation, got our priorities right?"<br /><br />Prioritise health over a foreign war that we should not have been involved in? Yes, I think we have the priority right.richard.bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589364986804437392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462652546051300479.post-2271070517570420582011-09-01T20:54:19.287+01:002011-09-01T20:54:19.287+01:00May I suggest that you also look at the Exorbitant...May I suggest that you also look at the Exorbitant salaries that are paid to NHS executives. Many pay their board members well in excess of £110,000. This is more than the pay of a Brigade Commander serving in Afghanistan who has up to 3,000 men under command and is also "Up to his eyes in muck and bullets." I would suggest that if realistic salaries were paid to Directors that there would be many £100,000's of pounds available Nationally to enhance patient care. Have we, as a Nation, got our priorities right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462652546051300479.post-74910202161815184732011-07-24T14:55:59.621+01:002011-07-24T14:55:59.621+01:00@Paul Leake
Indeed. But aren't we in an age o...@Paul Leake<br /><br />Indeed. But aren't we in an age of "new politics"?<br /><br />We had a major review in 2007 that would have closed some departments and Cameron promised a "bare knuckled fight" to prevent that from happening. Now he's in the position of having to do the same and although he's hoping that his market approach will close them, it seems that the closures will be at the time of the next election, and the public will blame him (as incumbent). Perhaps he should not have opposed the acute services review...richard.bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10589364986804437392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7462652546051300479.post-18819583702957747382011-07-24T10:31:27.864+01:002011-07-24T10:31:27.864+01:00The problem being of course that the second an MP ...The problem being of course that the second an MP suggests that closing part of a hospital might actually deliver better patient care, the part about them closing part of the hospital will be on every single opposition leaflet, press release or letter to the newspaper, whereas very few will bother reprinting the bits about how it could deliver better care overall. Us voters like the simple messages that can get across in a few words.Paul Leakehttp://www.mutualis.co.uk/societynorthnoreply@blogger.com