There are fewer places to hide in the private sector, frankly. It is a continuous evidence-based process with audits, contract reviews and outcomes based reviews, with budgets and contracts open to scrutiny at all times. And in the private sector, if you perform poorly you either upskill or you are out. As a patient/service user I welcome that. If I were a poorly performing manager or practitioner I might be a little alarmed. In the public sector I have seen, time after time, rubbish staff remain in post because it is too difficult to shift them, and the only way is up, to get them out of the public eye.
Keith Sansum1
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sarah
good morning, my fear is this private route, in most privatisations its the staff that suffer the most as corners are cut to keep up the profits.
we have the added thing of dealing with peoples lives as well.
im afraid before we go down any private route i would need a lot more convincing
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So, staff need to be retained even if they are not required or even functioning well? Why do people persist in thinking that in order to reduce costs corners have tio be cut? That really IS public sector thinking. Money is not the only way to improve services! In fact, often throwing money at services has the opposite effect as people think it will solve things, magically, on its own. Other factors such as better use of resources, better understanding of the market, better targeting of resources and a zero tolerance of poor practice are worth much more. People not functioning well should, of course, be offered a chance to upskill, but there has to be a limit to how much idiocy we tolerate when we are paying out taxes for it.
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bern;
no i dont think incompetent staff should be kept on., in that i share your views where we differ is that this can be found in both public and private sectors
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It is a fact that over 90%of hospital staff in the private sector done their training in the NHS which is the best in the world ,then move on,I think after they have done their training they should have to stay with the NHS for no less then 5years to pay back the cost of the training. And please remember in alot of case ,s the Dr you see in the private sector is the same one you see with the N.H.S. ,And there are staff also working for both,also most big NHS Hospital now, also have a private wing.
Not sure what the point there is? And I think the training may well have been the best a while back but it certainly is not now.
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........."done their training in the NHS which is the best in the world"........
Vic, I refuse to believe that, it might be as good as but not the best, you really do have rose tinted glasses regarding the NHS.
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It's that sentimental view of the NHS that is killing it. A realistic, rational and sensible re-evaluation is what is needed.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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i think being street wise and seeing other private companies rip us off makes you a cynic
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The rip off is the fact that our taxes are being wasted on a failing system that has insufficient safeguards and fails to deliver.
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bern;
there are now 2 threads running on a very similar topic so rather than repeat myself i will leave it on the other thread
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As I have said before anyone who knows anything about modern Healthcare proffesionals training knows that significant parts of their training is now provided across all healthcare providers. With placements in private / public and the charitable sectors. So the view that the NHS is the only organization that supports the development of future staff is not true. And before anyone asks the answer is that all placements for learners give their time and expertise without a financial charge for their input