Job for the girls

ColdAsIce said:
So what's it going to take to not only remove this awful former chief executive from the NHS but those left running the Trust that should also be removed.

"Katrina Percy faced sustained calls to resign over Southern Health's failure to investigate hundreds of deaths.
The BBC has now discovered her new job did not exist previously and she was the only candidate for it."

"Ms Percy resigned last week but went straight into a new role at the trust on the same salary of £240,000 a year, including pension benefits."

Meanwhile the Government is still trying to stick it to Junior Doctors.
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This has been happening for years, it's how government works, it's not conservative or Labour, politicians are corrupt and anyone with connections can get overpaid jobs at the tax payers expense and their jobs are completely safe.

With family and friends who worked within accounting in the NHS, my dad worked there for almost 40 years before retiring. Throughout his time, but massively accelerating during the late 90s, he saw departments merged to create new higher paying roles in which complete outsiders with next to no experience who ended up completely incompetent were given the roles in the same situation, no fair job search no one else having a chance to interview.

This one guy who was made a senior director after a merge of two hospitals had THREE HR cases where the NHS had paid out several hundred thousand for both racial and sexual harassment by him. He was found guilty each time, the NHS paid out damages and he still got promoted to this higher paying position. Him with 3 years in some rubbish job where he cost the NHS massively in damages and mistakes and he got an incredibly important senior job at twice the salary that the previous two guys held at each individual hospital had together. He was awful at his job, everyone hated him, multiple long term people who as such were on decent wages all left because they couldn't stand working with him. After a couple years making everyone's lives hell and destroying the department because he caused anyone competent to leave for better jobs, he got a promotion with another ridiculous pay rise despite having cost the NHS at this point millions in damages by his inappropriate behaviour and even more in mistakes in accounting, going way over budget because he lied or was just ignorant of the financial crisis in the hospital.

This is how government jobs work, there are good people and then there are guys with connections who are just picking up a massive pay cheque because of who their dad is, or who their best mate was in private school, or who their room mate was at Oxbridge.

This isn't a remotely unique story, there were half a dozen guys like this in EACH hospital, people who came in, got moved up repeatedly despite complete incompetence, good people looked over who would actually improve their departments and instead these guys everywhere bringing the NHS down.
 
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If this job was so vital why has no one ever done it before?

And why is it that she is "uniquely" qualifed to the point no applicants other where informed or interviews/a selection carried out.

After all if this "vital" job is so important youd want the best?

The job is "advising gps" :/
 
Drunken, can completely believe that from people I know who have worked within the NHS. And that sadly, is one of the reasons I believe it's broken.
 
wordy said:
It's not a public sector thing, it's a senior executive thing. You're average public sector pleb like me would be disciplined & fired just the same my private sector equivalent if I did something very wrong. Whereas we've seen it over & over poor performing private sector company directors get huge bonuses while rank & file staff suffer.
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Correct!
 
Zogger said:
There's something about "southern" as a prefix that makes you know you don't want to be dealing with a company...
"Southern Health"
"Southern Railways"
"Southern Electric"
"Southern.... fried chicken?"
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That's because southerners are all *******.
 
wordy said:
It's not a public sector thing, it's a senior executive thing. You're average public sector pleb like me would be disciplined & fired just the same my private sector equivalent if I did something very wrong. Whereas we've seen it over & over poor performing private sector company directors get huge bonuses while rank & file staff suffer.
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Agreed, fellow pleb here. The higher up the food chain you go the more bullet proof you are even if you are earth shakingly crap at your job. The private sector is as bad for this as the public sector.

And god help you if you have the audacity to point out how crap someone is.....
 
So approximately £240K as chief executive of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Then after a shocking show of incompetence including the failure to investigate 100's of deaths, she carries the same wage in an advisory role!
Now with around £500K pension pot she gets an additional £190K pay out.

Someone, including this disgusting excuse of a woman, needs to be facing an enquiry at the very least.
 
Some of the stuff I learnt after submitting a formal complaint against my health board after being left permanently disabled following delays and downright incompetence by my consultants leads me to believe that is sort of thing is common place. The NHS trusts that we rely on are riddled with corruption. But corruption these days seems to be considered the norm and only those worthy of punishment are the benefit cheats.
 
=XDC=FluphyBunny said:
So approximately £240K as chief executive of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Then after a shocking show of incompetence including the failure to investigate 100's of deaths, she carries the same wage in an advisory role!
Now with around £500K pension pot she gets an additional £190K pay out.

Someone, including this disgusting excuse of a woman, needs to be facing an enquiry at the very least.
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It's sad that we need 'enquiries' to sort out such obvious failings :/
 
'enquiries'

Created to give the impression that the ruling classes actually give a damn when in effect they amount to nothing except perhaps a statement containing the words. "Lessons will be learnt." And I think we all know the opposite is usually the case.
 
ColdAsIce said:
So what's it going to take to not only remove this awful former chief executive from the NHS but those left running the Trust that should also be removed.

"Katrina Percy faced sustained calls to resign over Southern Health's failure to investigate hundreds of deaths.
The BBC has now discovered her new job did not exist previously and she was the only candidate for it."

"Ms Percy resigned last week but went straight into a new role at the trust on the same salary of £240,000 a year, including pension benefits."

Meanwhile the Government is still trying to stick it to Junior Doctors.
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I wonder how they fulfilled the advertising criteria if she was the only candidate....
Who exactly was responsible for the role creation and employment?
 
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