The breakdown of health service cuts revealed/eastern heal
The whole focus is on the bricks and mortar &8211; not on the best services at the best price. And in the middle of this patients suffer
This particular survey is highly suspect. The Trades Unions through a front organisation ask their members in organisations across the country to compile figures for them &8216;under FOI&8217;. Aye， those have a lot of credibility. Even then the figures include &8216;temporary bank and agency&8217; staff ie all those high priced agency nurses who fill in for staff on long term sick etc (another thing we dont talk about despite the ct that the NHS is one of the &8216;sickest&8217; parts of the public sector.)
The Health Services here needs drastic reorganisation. We have r too many hospitals for the population. As a result we treat people in smaller units that are inefficient and LESS SAFE. The general public would often prefer to see Granny treated in their local hospital as its closer to home but they dont realise that her chances of recovery there are often less than if she were treated in a single specialist center. We all want our local A&E &8211; presumably because in an acute emergency we&8217;d prefer to die nearer to home than in a specialist center that might just have the higher skill levels to save us.
But， southern board， what about about 2010/11 and 2009/10?
The Economist: Between 1993 and 2000 average annual P growth approached 10%. But then someone put speed in the tigers water. Over the last decade the boom turned bubbly， as low interest rates and reckless lending， abetted by dozy regulation， pushed up land values and caused Ireland to turn into a nation of property developers. In County Leitrim， in the Irish Midlands， housing construction outstripped demand (based on population growth) by 401% between 2006 and 2009， according to one estimate.
380 South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust NI 200 WTE indicative post reduction in 2010/11. The posts will be spread across the whole of the organisation， although the Trust will ensure that the impact on frontline services is minimised as r as possible. 200
Chris on top uni scam: A lot of the credentials you get from Oxford come simply when you get the acceptance letter， so you dont need to pay 9000 a year to signal to future employers that youre good enough to get to Oxford. Evidence from the US and Israel shows that able people end up earning much the same， whether they go to a prestigious university or not.
381 Southern Health and Social Care Trust NI The Trust has not been advised of any funding position post-2011 or any specific efficiency savings to be delivered during that period.
Brian
Sectarian squabbles and political grandstanding mean that we build brand spanking new hospitals in areas that don&8217;t need them and that we cannot afford to run. The history of the Downpatrick Hospital is a scandal. Or we fight to retain duplicate services in different hospitals
377 Western Health and Social Care Trust NI 289 WTE post reduction in 2010/11: Medical &8211; 12; Nursing &8211; 143; Allied Health Professionals &8211; 12; Admin/Management &8211; 62; Social Services &8211; 36; Professional and Technical &8211; 12; Ancillary and General &8211; 12. In addition the Trust is required to save on a non-recurring basis 5.9 million from temporary/bank/agency staffing. The Trust is unable to give a WTE equivalent as the target relates to expenditure reductions as opposed to number of posts. Future years to be determined following October 20th Spending Review. 289
Boston Globe: …the fear of Middle Eastern oil shocks is now politically useful to a whole spectrum of powerful interest groups. This argument is like the miliar old jeans of American politics， he said. They are nice and cozy and comfortable and everyone can wear them.
The breakdown of health service cuts revealed/eastern heal，280 Northern Ireland Ambulance Service AMB 44 WTE reduction in funded establishment in 2010/11 (3.57% of total)， comprising 22 WTE paramedics and 22 WTE emergency medical technicians， all through vacancy freezing and natural wastage. The reduction is the equivalent of 4 x 24/7 (35，040 hours) per annum of traditional double crewed A&E Ambulance cover. This reduction was offset by an investment of the equivalent of 10 x 24/7 (87，600 hours) per annum of single manned Rapid Response Vehicles introduced prior to 2010/11. This investment increased the funded establishment by 60 WTE Paramedic posts.
Response from the Belst Trust as reported in the Belst Telegraph:
Jason: The funny thing is that he is， as a rule， deeply cynical about politics and politicians. He doesnt normally believe any of them. But when Gerry Adams or Richard Boyd Barrett or Joe Higgins promise him on the telly that a vote for them means the reversal of cutbacks and a painless future for all， his ears prick up. Thats what he wants! Along with his promised public sector pay increase and his pension contribution restored and above all， someone else picking up the tab. They are saying exactly what he wants! Its incredible.
Bagehot: David Camerons Big Society drive to increase civic activism and localism is often dismissed as a wheeze most suitable for affluent communities， such as his own constituency in Oxfordshire. Yet the Isle of Wight is not especially affluent: local wages are below mainland levels， though the island does have a ir number of wealthy retirees or sailing-enthusiasts with second homes. What does set it apart is a lifestyle that offers unusual amounts of time (only 15% of islanders commute by ferry to the mainland for work). I suspect that explains quite a lot. Localism works， when everything really is local.
The scale of cuts to the Health Service， &8211; a service thats supposed to be ring fenced but now subject to lower rates of investment is revealed by a union-sponsored website False Economy and extracted by the Guardians Data Blog. The info is collated from FoI requests throughout the UK . A long scroll down reveals the damage to NI services &8211; a total of over 2，500 posts. They included 280 posts in the ambulance service Of these at least 132 and medical and dental posts and 763 are in nursing. The southern board does not break the categories of posts cut. Further up the listit is It should be emphasised that these appear to be historic figures applying mainly for the financial year about to end. It does not deal with 2011/12 and subsequent.
Numbers have to be treated with caution. If something is reorganised the &8216;post&8217; may be closed， but that does not mean a &8216;job&8217; is lost: it may just be shifted to another category or grade， or department. For example: public health posts in the NHS have moved to the Local Councils in England &8211; post lost， job moved to another public accounting centre. These numbers may well be jobs lost， and wouldn&8217;t want to challenge the scale of change， but equally the numbers may not be what they appear. Only came across this recently in conversation with a public sector boss.
Lee: Elliott seems to be duplicating what he did at the Taxpayers Alliance (TPA) to the referendum campaign but a pressure group working on a single issue over a sustained period is a different beast to a referendum campiagn. Also the impact of the TPA is over-rated – its success was largely based on its ability to give good headline. Something it achieved by simply doing the research (sometimes questionable) that these hollowed out nationals couldnt do anymore.
We are not talking about directly employed members of staff losing their jobs. The figures indicate what the different savings plans required of us over several years have meant in terms of reduced resources. In the main this means we have reduced agency staff， reduced overtime and reduced temporary staff. But during 2010/11 we have received investment for the equivalent of around 100 whole time equivalent members of staff.
Dan: Im not sure of the protocol but just who is the official leader of the opposition is it the leader of the largest party or the person who gets the next highest vote for Taoiseach? Cos that could be Gerry Adams.
379 Northern Health and Social Care Trust NI 88.73 WTE post reduction in 2009/10. No further information available.
You do your best in the shock / horror stakes but I have to say， so what?
I love that for Belst Trush the number of nurses being cut is over twice the number of admin staff! When I worked there the number of administrators to admistrate what other administrators were doing was already endemic and from what I hear that has not changed. Don&8217;t get we wrong， I still work for the NHS in Scotland in a clerical role and clerical work is vital to the running of the hospital butThe breakdown of health service cuts revealed/eastern heal not the amount of band 7+ admin staff that there are who are all getting paid more than the nursing staff. Cuts in the NHS as required but not in front line services.
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No political interest will dare say this or challenge as local votes are at stake. This runs from the bottom to the top. Expect a lot more shroud waving for the next 3 months.
378 Belst Health and Social Care Trust NI 1，755 WTE net post reduction in 2010/11. 1，855 WTE (9%) gross post reduction， including temporary， bank and agency staff who make up around 5% of the total workforce. Medical & Dental &8211; 120; Nursing &8211; 620; Social Services &8211; 185; Ancillary & General &8211; 320; Professional & Technical &8211; 325; Admin & Clerical &8211; 285. Investment for additional clinical staff in the order of 100 WTE has been provided to the Trust in 2010/11. 1755