One in five NHS redundancies rehired after receiving payoffs
18 December 2013
In the past 12 months the NHS has hired 3,261 individuals who had previously been paid off under the government’s reorganisation of the service, a parliamentary committee heard yesterday.
Wed, 18 Dec 2013In the past 12 months the NHS has hired 3,261 individuals who had previously been paid off under the government’s reorganisation of the service, a parliamentary committee heard yesterday.
The Daily Telegraph reports the Commons Health Select Committee heard that of 19,126 redundancies made since the coalition government’s reforms started, a fifth were rehired. At least 2,300 of the redundancies received six-figure exit packages.
And 403 employees returned to the health service within four weeks of taking redundancy, the paper says.
The Telegraph notes that Labour MP Barbara Keeley suggested this indicates “appallingly bad planning... it just smacks of carelessness with public money”.
Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, said it was important to remember the NHS is not one single homogenised body. “Successive governments – not just this government – have concluded that it doesn't work to run it as a single structure with everyone reporting to the secretary of state,” he said.
Meanwhile, recruiter.co.uk would suggest that the National Audit Office was on to something when it suggested in a July report that getting the right staff in place was the biggest challenge for the reformed health system.
The Daily Telegraph reports the Commons Health Select Committee heard that of 19,126 redundancies made since the coalition government’s reforms started, a fifth were rehired. At least 2,300 of the redundancies received six-figure exit packages.
And 403 employees returned to the health service within four weeks of taking redundancy, the paper says.
The Telegraph notes that Labour MP Barbara Keeley suggested this indicates “appallingly bad planning... it just smacks of carelessness with public money”.
Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, said it was important to remember the NHS is not one single homogenised body. “Successive governments – not just this government – have concluded that it doesn't work to run it as a single structure with everyone reporting to the secretary of state,” he said.
Meanwhile, recruiter.co.uk would suggest that the National Audit Office was on to something when it suggested in a July report that getting the right staff in place was the biggest challenge for the reformed health system.
