March 29, 2005
The Telegraph reveals its very small brain
Of the 44,200 whole time equivalent new employees, 7,200 are doctors, 10,500 are nurses and 2,600 allied health professionals. The balance of 23,900 are back office staff, administrators, receptionists, lab technicians and cleaners.
I love the assumption that lab technicians, who provide relatively useful information for doctors, and cleaners, who are supposed to protect us all from MRSA, are not 'frontline health professionals'. But then obviously neither are all the white-collar staff who make the wheels of the NHS edifice turn, however slowly.
Obviously the nurses should do the lab tests and doctors should wash the floors. [via the Adam Smith Institute's blog, which seems to have an even smaller collective iq than the Telegraph does...]
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