Commenting on the latest Tax Payer’s Alliance FoI to all NHS Trusts, Christina McAnea, UNISON Head of Health, said:
“Since when has the so called Tax Payers’ Alliance been the expert on what jobs are needed in the NHS and what are not? And how much of the NHS’s time and precious money has it wasted asking for this pointless information?”
In response to the TPA’s simplistic branding of jobs as “unnecessary”, she went on to say:
“It is very foolish to speculate about the content of a job just from the title. The NHS is a very large and complex organisation with a multi billion pound budget. That means a range of staff are needed to ensure that clinicians are free to get on with their work.
“The real scandal in the NHS is the £1.5bn the Government is spending on a completely unnecessary and deeply disturbing reorganisation. The public really needs to know about some of the ‘unseen’ Government spending, such as the cost of supporting the procurement process, the inroads made by expensive private companies and the cost of the market culture in our health service.”
