DAVID Cameron should have said “some of you are all in this together”. With the cash strapped NHS having to make savage cuts and pay restraints (with the exception of top managers). I was rather surprised by headlines on October 2, ‘Pay bonus for eight top NHS managers’ and £85,000 shared between them for achieving the majority of their targets for 2012/13.

Whilst I applaud them for this sterling effort, especially as they did it without any help from the doctors, nurses and support staff. Foolishly I assumed that the overworked underpaid doctors and nurses putting in extra hours to cover staff shortages etc may have played some small part in achieving these targets.

Obviously I was wrong otherwise surely they also should have been rewarded. Maybe I am being a little unfair as I understand the nurses did recently have a massive one per cent pay increase. It must be wonderful for the morale of the doctors, nurses and staff to know just how important they are. As Sir Tony Baldry said in the article “I think it is perfectly sensible for such a large complex organisation, there should be performance related pay for key people.”

It seems: now we know who the key people are, why don’t you doctors and nurses get your fingers out and try a bit harder.

This will enable top managers to achieve all of their targets, and qualify for even bigger bonuses. What an unfair and sick society we live in.

P J COULING
North Hinksey Lane
Botley
Oxford


 

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