Next CEO of NHS

pinkquartz

so scary.......i can only think this will finish the NHS. and that is the plan by the Tory govt

Sadly, I think that is the intention and always has been. I wonder just how many times we have been lied to now.

so scary.......i can only think this will finish the NHS. and that is the plan by the Tory govt

In political and other circles it seems that incompetence is the only attribute needed for promotion. I saw this on several occasions working in Social Care and then of course there is Ursula Von de Leyen.

I’m sure Dido’s xenophobia will be attractive to a certain type of Tory supporter.

Not sure where Johnson would have been when he had covid without these pesky foreigners!

Apparently she would like to 'end the NHS reliance on foreigners. The twitter link has a screenshot of her Sunday Times piece.

twitter.com/CoppetainPU/status/1406547115556364290

It's frustrating trying to find out the figure for staff shortages in the NHS, but this from 2019:

There were around 100,000 full-time equivalent advertised vacancies in hospital and community services alone between October and December 2019. This equates to an estimated shortfall of 8.1% (around 1 in 12 posts). That said, there is no single, robust data on the level of vacancies in the NHS, with these figures based on published vacancy adverts on the main recruitment website for the NHS4.

www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/the-nhs-workforce-in-numbers#2-what-is-the-overall-shortfall-in-staff-in-the-nhs

Does Harding seriously believe that we can make up the shortfall from UK only workers, I wonder? According to the ST article there are some 170,000 'foreign' workers in the NHS. Add that to the 100,000 shortfall and think about the cost of training and the length of time needed for training The cost is especially interesting given that the government seems reluctant to increase funding to the NHS...

Happy to be challenged on this...

Wouldn't surprise me at all if they gave her the job. I think they want the NHS to fail. Then they can sell it all off, their donors will make billions, and donate even more to the Conservative party and individual Tory MPs.

The only positive I can find in this is that she had to apply as opposed to just being handed it - but please, please don’t let her get it, this would be a disaster for the NHS given her track record and political leanings, despite the fact that she has said that if successful she would step back from politics.

...and her husband sits on the advisory board of a think tank called 1828, which calls for the NHS to be replaced by an insurance system and for Public Health England to be scrapped.

Although of course I would not be so unsisterly to suggest she is influenced by her husband.

Graduate in lack of PPE from Oxford.

CEO of TalkTalk: personal and banking details of up to four million customers, not all of which were encrypted, were accessed. City A.M. described her as "naive", when asked if the affected customer data was encrypted or not, she replied: "The awful truth is that I don't know". “Marketing” ran a headline, "TalkTalk boss Dido Harding's utter ignorance is a lesson to us all". Fining the company £400,000, the Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham blamed a "failure to implement the most basic cyber security measures."

On the board for the Cheltenham festival: The 2020 festival went ahead at the same time as the WHO were declaring the pandemic. The left-wing rag The Times reported in early April 2020 that the festival had "helped spread the disease widely across the country". Hundreds of festival visitors said they had developed symptoms, according to the newspaper. An analysis of NHS data for Gloucestershire recorded "125 deaths, roughly double that in two nearby trusts. According to the Sunday Times, the analysis linked the Cheltenham Festival to 37 deaths "at nearby hospitals between 25 and 35 days later".

Test and Trace: again from the Times: "Test and Trace has cost the taxpayer £22bn (it is now £37bn). It has repeatedly failed to achieve targets it has been set. It was once heralded as The Thing That Would Defeat Covid, but nobody talks about it much any more."

NHS: watch this space.

In the interests of balance....

I've been ranting on the Bercow thread about how people are mounting personal attacks on him.

Mocking a woman because her name sounds like a sex toy and suggesting sexual relationships with high ranking government people aren't exactly high standards of criticism, are they?

Dylant1234

Corruption. Simples. I do wonder what she has on them though - she was at uni with them wasn’t she?!?!?!

Friends with benefits?

Corruption. Simples. I do wonder what she has on them though - she was at uni with them wasn’t she?!?!?!

My partner inserts an extra "L" into her first name...

If they give the job to Dido Harding, what hope have we of a government which asks 'who can do this job well?' rather than "which of our friends would like to do this job?' The tragedy is that this is just one of so many worrying things - lets hope this one doesn't happen. Did you know that the government is trying to change the law so that the Electoral Commission has fewer powers to highlight and investigate politicians who do wrong? I haven't got the details, but what is happening to our democracy?

My husband has put his name forward he has worked in the NHS for 42 years so he has a good idea of what the NHS needs.
Mind you we will not be surprised the job goes to someone who does not have a clue, that’s the normal line of direction.

Where have I been? I thought her first name was a nickname and had an l in it.
Either way, she should not get the job.

Is it the government that employs (approves? has the final say about?) the CEO of the NHS, or does the NHS (England and Wales) have an independent governing body?

Surly her track record will be enough for her not to get the job if she does then I'm afraid we are doomed

Why does she think she could do it ?
Anything to do with the fact that her husband is a member of the 1828 group which wants the NHS to be replaced by Private insurance and for Public Health England to be scrapped?.I supposed you could say that handing over so much to private companies while running Test and Trace would be a good experience .

Talk Talk, Test and Trace, all absolute disasters on her watch. Seems she has the right credentials for the job.

Whitewavemark2

That is what she will be employed to oversee.

That was my thinking too.

John Major, when asked what he would like to drink , used to reply ABC (anything but Chardonnay)

I think his answer to the question "who should run the NHS?" might be ABD (anyone but Dido)

A Tory with integrity

That is what she will be employed to oversee.

I had an email from the NCP today advertising their Webinar titled Who Cares? The Future of Health & Care, which I thought you might like to share.
There is a press release about it here

This is from the press release:

World leading health care expert Professor Sir Michael Marmot will join Johnbosco Nwogbo of public services watchdog We Own It, and Tracey Jarrett of Lewisham Pensioners’ Forum for the third in the National Pensioners’ Convention webinar series this June.

The speakers will give presentations on the state of the UK health and care system in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, and provide their views on the government’s new NHS Health and Care Bill. They will also discuss what the continuing delay in the government’s much vaunted social care reform means for an already creaking sector.

Jan Shortt, NPC General Secretary, and Chair of the webinar, said: “This is a very important discussion for our members, who genuinely fear what the government is planning for the NHS and our social care system.

“Despite government promises that the new Bill - and their long-awaited social care reform - will integrate and transform both services for the better, the NPC has serious concerns about what is being proposed.

“There are clear signs that, despite their denials they are preparing to sell off NHS services to the private sector and to US investors. With fewer tendering checks in place as proposed in the new Bill, what is there to stop them?

“We will hear from three speakers who understand the implications for us all in these proposals. I hope as many people as possible register for the event to listen to what they have to say, as it is vitally important to us all!"