Thread by @theonlywayisup

Previous Chief Execs of the NHS since 1994
Alan Langlands 1994–2000
Nigel Crisp 1 November 2000 – 6 March 2006.
Ian Carruthers 7 March 2006 – September 2006
David Nicholson September 2006 – 31 March 2014
Simon Stevens 1 April 2014 – 31 July 2021 (7.3 years)

What do these people all have in common?

They all worked in NHS management or the Department of Health.

Dido Harding?
Used to sell phones.

As a former NHS employee, this is my question:
Are they taking the piss?

If anyone wants to know what is wrong with Westminster, go and read Dominic Cummings' blog. Yes, it's fucking hilarious that he's ratted out his ex-mate Boris Johnson, but look at what he's actually saying - that they had their own little task force of "good people" with .....

.....no fucking clue what they were doing, and put them in charge of the most significant crisis in this country since WWll, completely sidestepping all those already in posts where they knew what to do and how to do it. It is one of the reasons why PPE procurement....

....was such an omnishambles. Because instead of leaving it to the procurement professionals, they instead farmed it out to the No 10 Quiet fucking Bat People or whatever they were calling their team of weirdos and misfits recruited by an unelected twat.

The NHS is a big machine; you have to know how it works, you have to understand it the way a vascular surgeon understands circulation and you cannot gain that experience by running a shitty mobile phone company.

The Track and Trace shambles alone should automatically ....

.... disqualify her from consideration. As of last November, the government had spent £22 billion on this so-called service. It has never worked properly, and even they admit it has not performed well. What they don't tell you is quite how gigantic that figure is, in context

So let me fill you in: £22 billion is roughly twice what the government spends on the entire Primary Care service in England every year. That's everything that doesn't happen in a hospital, in effect - all the GP surgeries, nurses, pharmacies, buildings, equipment etc

The whole lot. So try to get your head around this again
They gave the same amount of money the NHS spends to run the entire Primary Care setup for a whole two years to a non-NHS company headed by a woman with absolutely no experience of Healthcare, and she fucked it up big time.

Now she wants to run the whole fucking thing.
This is like putting me in charge of Formula 1 based on my ownership of a Haynes manual or the Tour de France based on my cycling proficiency badge.

And for someone who had to take and pass exams in order to be qualified to work....

... in my field, and who works with Healthcare professionals who have to constantly re-validate their qualifications, I think bringing someone in whose only venture into the field so far has been a massive fuck up is just unforgiveable.

And good morning to you all. Apologies...

.... for starting this lovely day with an epic rant, but I am, as you may have gleaned, pissed off on an epic scale about all this.