Richard Quigley MP says that he has been assured that no frontline roles will be cut at St Mary’s Hospital as part of plans to cull 250 local jobs.
Island MP has said “no front-line roles” will be cut at St Mary’s Hospital after meeting with unions and the Isle of Wight NHS Trust.
The Labour MP for Isle of Wight West recently met with unions and the Isle of Wight NHS Trust following news that around 10% of whole time equivalent (WTE) jobs within the Trust are at risk as part of ‘cost improvement plans’.
The Trust says that workforce reduction is a key aspect of its operating plan for 2025/26.
A total of 249 roles have been selected for cutbacks out of 2,470 WTE roles across substantive, bank and agency staff groups at St Mary’s Hospital, equivalent to a saving of £10.8million.
Mr Quigley has said:
“I spoke to Unison and the Trust last week, no job losses are confirmed. Should any be made, it will be in back-office functions, removing duplication. No front-line roles will be cut.
“The reorganisation of the NHS is focused on improving care and outcomes and removing bureaucracy that slow the system down. Our focus is reducing waiting times and improving health.
Article continues below this advertisement “I’ll keep in close contact with Unison and the trust as more information becomes available.”
His comments follow Unison’s warning last week that losing vital health worker roles will ‘simply place more strain on services already creaking at the seams’.
The public sector union’s south east regional organiser, James Smith, said:
“The pressure on the NHS is unsustainable. Tackling the growing demand and ensuring patients get the timely care they deserve won’t be achieved by cutting jobs.
“What’s certain is that losing vital health worker roles will simply place more strain on services already creaking at the seams and will cost more in the long run.”
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust previously said that while it understands ‘these decisions are difficult’, it needs to ‘go further’ than it did last year to ‘achieve the significant financial savings required of us’.
Sorry I don’t trust anything that comes out of any labour politicians mouth
Lies are common practice for this government
The Conservatives are no better.
Too be honest (something politicians aren’t) lol
They all work for the same Elite bosses, so it
doesn’t matter who is in the hot seat they are all
singing from the same hymn sheet.
I read some interesting comments on
CP about what goes on and what doesn’t
go on at St Mary’s
Just like any other organisation it is an
organisation that employs a majority of useless
locals, it is run so different to mainland trusts.
Get rid of the local clutter and bring in overseas
staff, better for everyone.
£10.8 million savings for what?…to pay for the keep of all the new Doctors turning up daily on our beaches?
well done labour for cancelling the Rwanda scheme….
Nothing wrong with foreign doctors, have you not
seen some of the local ones.
Bring them over what I say.
Change is good, het rid of the clutter and bring in
new blood.
How can he even say that, all of the so called Labour party are a bunch of sneaky liars, thieves and the most corrupt and cruel government to ever have existed in modern times. What do you expect from a PM who loves to hide stuff under his desk, his most used phrase when asked a difficult question “It never crossed my desk.” LIAR.
All parties are the same, they all report to the same boss.
How on earth are there duplicated jobs after all the previous “efficiency” measures have been put in place numerous times.
How can you reduce waiting times by reducing staff, it certainly won’t reduce the waiting time on the phone although nowadays after a while you get cut off anyway.
The problem with St Mary’s there are too many
UNACCOUNTED for employees who do F’all
That’s the bottom line.
Who do you think conducted the last and all effieiency reviews, yes ,you guessed it,the very people in back offices whose roles are at risk, in the 21st century doctors are still writing reports and staff ferry patient files around the hospital, have they not heard of computerisation.
I truly despair at people’s ability to read the news daily but absorb little of it, and with no critical thinking skills.
So I’ll remind folk that this is linked to the dismantling of NHS England, the (mis)management body who ran the NHS into the ground with top pay for execs and managers, cut full-time staff to the bone yet drafted in agency staff at double the cost whilst also paying out in agency fees.
Having done a fag-packet calculation (always a good idea) it roughly means that the average wage to the 249 staff was 50k a year including all those fees. Enough to buy two full time nurses, or 598 in total.
Bring back Matrons and BAN Bank working
it costs the NHS Billions a year in extra pay for the
same work being carried out.
As for the Numpty’s roaming around Hospitals
in suits doing F’all, sack the lot of them.
The NHS is the last decent thing this country has.
everything else as been sold off over the years.