Blame Tory Ministers for the NHS’s Woke-ification
by David Craig, The Daily Sceptic:
I have written before on the Daily Sceptic about the extraordinary amounts of our money NHS organisations are spending on hiring DIE (Diversity, Inclusion and Equality) directors, managers, assistants and other such personnel. According to one source, the NHS employed around 800 DIE staff. The direct salary cost is estimated at about £40 million a year. But when you take account of other employment costs – pension contributions, offices, computers, plus all the frontline staff’s time spent on various ultra-woke indoctrination sessions, the real costs of the NHS’s DIE colossus is easily over £100 million a year. Moreover, despite pledges to reduce DIE staff, the NHS keeps on recruiting ever more.
But a key question is – why are so many of these people being given well-paid, well-pensioned jobs at a time when the NHS waiting lists are at record levels, when patients are dying because they are unable to get treatment and when the NHS claims to be in crisis due to a supposed lack of funding. Several Conservative Health Secretaries have proclaimed that they were clamping down on DIE. For example, in October 2013 Health Secretary Steve Barclay told NHS chiefs to stop “promoting woke ideology”. At the time the Taxpayers’ Alliance revealed that Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust was spending £464,101 on DIE staff and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust had 10 roles costing £428,127. Other NHS trusts that spent more than £200,000 on equality and diversity roles included Barts Health NHS Trust, which spent £376,645 on seven roles, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, which spent £352,930 on eight roles and Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, which spends £307,181 on 4.4 roles.
More recently the Sunday Times reported (April 14th 2024) that Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust announced that it was running a deficit of about £84 million. Yet Guy’s had recently appointed a Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. I don’t know how much this important individual is paid. But there was also an Associate Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion on a salary of £78,163 to £88,884 a year. So, I imagine that the Associate Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion’s boss – the Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion – must be getting somewhere in the region of £100,000 a year.
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