Posted on 09/02/2009 9:00:57 PM PDT by Nachum
The NHS may need to cut its workforce by about 10 per cent — the equivalent of 137,000 staff — to help to meet planned savings of £20 billion, according to a leaked Department of Health report.
A study commissioned from the consultancy firm McKinsey and Company recommends cutting clinical staff posts as well as administrators to meet efficiency savings by 2014, suggesting a knock-on effect to patient care.
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Major impact - there will now be a NHS worker for every 44 Brits instead of one for every 40 Brits.
Did I hear Daniel Hannon, the British MP who has been on American TV praising our Constitutional system (such as it is, in tatters) and especially decrying socialized medicine...say that the NHS employed the third largest workforce on earth?
Bigger than the Chinese...whatever...? But if they need to fire well over 100K NHS workers, that’s just insane.
Soon they will be shaking bones and calling it health care.
A recent surprise piece of data was that the NHS is the largest employer in the world!! If that is true for a country (UK) of 61 million think how many people will be federal employees in a country of 300,000,000.
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