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and paying recruitment agencies about £20,000 per head

"The National Health Service is planning to pay recruitment agencies up to £100m to find 5,000 doctors — about half of them from overseas — to plug mounting staffing gaps.The recruitment drive over the next three and a half years is intended to tackle a growing shortage of general practitioners in England, as well as fulfil a pledge by Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, to make GPs available to the public seven days a week by 2020.The hiring is expected to start in the autumn and will enable recruitment agencies to secure about £20,000 in fees per GP, according to a contract notice published by NHS England this month."

https://www.ft.com/content/757ddc58...ation:daily-empty-email:content:headline:html

and here is the notice:

"...NHS England General Practice Forward View (GPFV) committed 2 400 000 000 GBP of extra funding to General Practice. The GPFV aims to deliver an additional 5 000 medical practitioners (doctors) working in General Practice before April 2020. A key part of this is to recruit a proportion of the additional general medical practitioners (GPs) from overseas from Autumn 2017 to April 2020. It is currently anticipated that between 2 000 and 3 000 GPs may be recruited from overseas...."

http://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:332444-2017:TEXT:EN:HTML

The FT also says that:

"The decision to pay up to £100m to recruitment agencies is likely to fuel concerns over the planned sale of NHS Professionals, a state-owned agency that oversees recruitment for a significant part of the NHS. The agency is estimated to save the NHS up to £70m a year by supplying staff more cheaply than private sector recruitment agencies."
 
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that's what happens when you cut training of your population due to austerity. You need to get the staff from somewhere, and if they come from less developed countries, your overseas aid budget goes up.

I have never understood how the NHS is allowed to use external recruitment agencies. Back in the day, my Mum worked for the NHS and they had "the pool" so that existing staff could earn more cash. One fixed payment per grade per hour. No massive payments to outside contractors.
 
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The Tories are privatising the NHS and you start seeing less and less being offered on the NHS and longer waiting lists. People will then go misdiagnosed for longer or stay ill for longer so they will just walk into already understaffed casualty departments who will now have to deal with more and more patients.

A stitch in time saves nine. The idea that cutting resources ends up saving money doesnt stop people being ill. Look at the US system where people who cannot afford healthcare finally enter the hospital via casualty when they are very ill this then raises the costs of treatment.

Well done voting for this shambles.
 
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