Making the news today....

[trigger_andy]

1 hour ago, Stere said:

  Locum GPs  are on about   £800 per day     so not all front line staff are that poorly payed. Others are though esp the support staff etc.

Well done for cherry picking 0.1% of the frontline staff. 🥱

[GarethM]

Don't think Stere was necessarily cherry picking, but nasgp says there are around 17,190 locums.

 

So at £800 a day that's £1.3m a day.

[trigger_andy]

Don't think Stere was necessarily cherry picking, but nasgp says there are around 17,190 locums.
 
So at £800 a day that's £1.3m a day.

Well he did specify locums in London. That is Cherry Picking as it allows his to use the shock figure of £800 a day. Which you then used for all locums the UK over who are not on nearly that figure. [emoji849]

[GarethM]

Whilst after doing some research, I am somewhat sceptical at the £30-75 per hour, I wouldn't expect any Dr to be earning less than 100 an hour especially as a jobbing locum.

 

NHS waste is more at the top than at the bottom, removing useless layers of upper management and return to central style purchasing where they had the power to negotiate and drive down prices.

[Johnsond]

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How’s that for waste on an astronomical scale. 

[GarethM]

Does that include the PPE that wasn't to spec or just a little excess stock ?

[sime42]

So now they're burning money to keep us all warm, that's a novel way to address the cost of living crisis.

 

 

[GarethM]

Well there are only so many cigars you can light with a burning 50, plus with them all being plastic it's probably a little toxic.

[sime42]

Even better, so they're addressing the climate crisis as well. Genius.

[GarethM]

There was me thinking smoking cigars must be carbon neutral!