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Tony - back to the jokes:-

Light travels faster than sound.
This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

You are so right Kawasaki - some perspective.....

1,432,000 NHS Staff in 2009, of which number 44,660 were managers and senior managers.
Sir David Nicholson, NHS Chief Executive, said “Although there has been a large percentage rise in the number of managers, overall they make up just 3.5 per cent of the NHS workforce."
Nurses were 375,500 - some 26% of the workforce. Their average salary was £29,200.
(Figures courtesy of The NHS Information Centre)

Directors of NHS trusts England received average pay increases of 6.4 per cent last year, far exceeding the Government’s 2.2 per cent pay rise for nurses and midwives, and its 2 per cent target for other public servants.

Since 1997 the average earnings of NHS chief executives have increased by 98 per cent compared to 50 per cent across the public sector as a whole.

The median salary for a chief executive of a NHS Foundation Trust stood at £157,000 for the year to March 2008, compared with £132,600 for a chief executive of a non-foundation NHS Trust.
(Figures courtesy of The Incomes Data Services (IDS), independent market analysts)

Approximately 60% of the NHS budget goes on Staff Pay (20% on Drugs and Supplies, the remaining 20% split between buildings, equipment, training costs, medical equipment, catering and cleaning). That budget (in 2009) equated to nearly £2000 per head for every man, woman and child in the UK.
(Figures courtesy of The NHS Information Centre)

It's the nurses who give the bed-baths and the injections, its the medics who diagnose and cut us open to fix our problems. They are "the coal-face", the blood-flecked, vomit-stained smiling faces that treat us mere mortals. And I support them to the hilt against management every time. But that is to entirely miss the point.....

I just thought it was a bit of a joke that management keeps boosting it's numbers and bumping up it's own pay whilst the workers that actually "do" the NHS day-to-day stuff pay the price.