Fury as NHS STILL spending millions on woke jobs & projects despite Labour vow to reform ailing health service

THE NHS is inactive spending millions of pounds connected politically correct, non-frontline services contempt Labour’s pledge to betterment our ailing wellness service, a Sun connected Sunday probe has revealed.

We identified costly projects successful spot crossed the UK since Labour came to power, including successful hospitals the Care Quality Commission said request to improve.

It comes contempt a antecedently announced clampdown connected specified spending.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting revealed this week that, successful the archetypal 3 months of this fiscal year, NHS trusts had racked up fund deficits of £2billion.

Since the General Election successful July, determination person been a fig of jobs advertised crossed the state for radical and diverseness roles.

Yet critics reason patients would alternatively spot frontline unit employed.

A fig of trusts are besides offering unit perks, including days disconnected for their day and adjacent for completing mandatory training.

Many of these roles and projects are being slammed arsenic “virtue signalling” amid demands for health chiefs to halt misspending taxpayers’ money and absorption connected diligent care.

According to figures from the extremity of past year, determination was already an yearly walk of £13million connected 336 diverseness roles crossed the country.

Last night, Professor Karol Sikora, a London-based advisor oncologist, said: “What are these highly paid but wholly unskilled diverseness officers really going to do?

“Next clip you’re successful a session waiting room, who bash you really privation to spot — a doc oregon EDI [equality, diverseness and inclusion] officer?

“Pouring billions much into the NHS volition beryllium wholly wasted if we don’t alteration the full absorption structure. Being woke volition conscionable discarded money and outgo lives.”

In a large code this week, Wes Streeting said the NHS was connected “borrowed time” and had to amended efficiency.

Yet we recovered jobs person been advertised crossed the state wrong NHS Trusts for assorted EDI posts since the election.

They included the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust seeking a diligent EDI serviceman and engagement coordinator, with a wage up to £36,483.

Yet, according to a 2020 Care Quality Commission report, The Royal Cornwall Hospital required betterment overall, but determination person been advances successful caller years. It besides has a shortage of astir £3.5million.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is recruiting a nationalist engagement and equalities specializer astatine a wage of up to £44,962 and the relation involves ensuring they “take a robust attack to nationalist participation . . . equality, diverseness and inclusion”.

It already spends much than immoderate different infirmary successful the state connected diverseness roles.

According to The Taxpayers’ Alliance it is £464,101.

Despite this, the Care Quality Commission 2023 report, which looked astatine maternity services, said it besides needed improvement. Its shortage is £71million.

Figures past November from the TaxPayers’ Alliance showed King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust successful London had 10 roles totalling £428,127.

Others splashing much than £200,000 connected equality and diverseness positions included Barts Health NHS Trust successful London, which spent £376,645 connected 7 roles.

However, successful its astir caller report, the CQC recovered it requires betterment wide and that unit “regularly worked done breaks and beyond the extremity of their shift”.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, which spent £352,930 connected 8 jobs, reported a £22million shortage successful 2023.

The trust’s yearly study said: “The fiscal discourse successful which we run has been challenging, but we person made progress.”

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, spent £307,181.

The spot said successful its yearly study it has been “balancing the request to trim waiting times and amended services”.

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Sir John Hayes, MP for South Holland and The Deepings, successful Lincolnshire, said: “Most of my constituents, I suspect, privation that wealth spent connected doctors and nurses.

"Let’s get the wealth connected the beforehand line, treating patients. That’s what the NHS is for.

"Not pandering to politically correct, woke mantras.”

A fig of hospitals astir the state connection unit different perks.

Among them is the Northern Care Alliance NHS Trust based successful Greater Manchester, wherever employees tin person their day disconnected arsenic portion of yearly entitlement.

They tin bargain up to 4 weeks of other holiday, thing offered by galore trusts.

Elsewhere, infirmary unit are entitled to a time disconnected for completing mandatory grooming and having a flu jab.

Between 2019 and 2022, trusts besides spent £45,000 connected rainbow crossings connected NHS estates.

They included North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, which paid £950 to overgarment LGBT colours alongside zebra stripes connected pedestrian crossings.

Shadow Health Secretary Edward Argar said: “So far, we’ve seen words, not actions, from the Labour Government.

"They request to get superior successful making definite wealth successful our NHS goes into frontline services.”

In her Budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves gave the NHS a £22.6billion currency injection implicit 2 years.

Joanna Marchong, of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “The Health Secretary should beryllium holding backmost further funds until NHS bosses beryllium they tin walk it wisely.”

The Department of Health and Social Care said: “Our 10 Year Health Plan volition hole the NHS truthful we get much bang for taxpayers’ subordinate and wide the backlog.”

An NHS spokesperson said: “We are committed to ensuring each penny of payer wealth is utilized wisely to the payment of patients, and the fig of equality, diverseness and inclusion roles has been reduced by NHS England arsenic portion of efforts to guarantee a greater proportionality of backing reaches the beforehand line.”

A spokesperson for Nottingham University Hospitals said of its caller speciality role: “It volition enactment crossed the East Midlands to springiness radical a accidental to person a accidental successful the future of their attraction treatment, helping them get cost-effective services.”

And a spokesperson for Royal Cornwall said its EDI relation was to regenerate an existing funded position, “to guarantee patients, specified arsenic those with a learning disability are capable to entree healthcare”.