If the NHS Desperately Needs More Cash, Why Does it Continue to Waste Millions on Diversitycrats?

According to Tony Blair’s institute, we have three months to save the NHS. It’s so strapped for cash, this Winter is likely to be the most challenging period in its 74-year history. And recent news stories suggest the NHS really is on the brink of collapse – a Cornish pensioner had to wait 15 hours for an ambulance after he broke his pelvis.

But hang on a minute. If the NHS has so little money that it has to be held together with rubber-bands and Copydex, why is it continuing to lavish millions of pounds on equity, diversity and inclusion tsars? After all, it’s not as if the NHS has a problem with diversity. As Fraser Myers pointed out in Spiked, a whopping 30% of NHS medical staff are Asian – compared to just 50% of medical staff who are white.

A reader has sent me an ad that caught his eye for a new position at Moorfields Eye Hospital:

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Manager

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – London

£55,903 – £61,996 a year

Are you passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion? Do you have proven experience in leading change and creating working environments where all colleagues can thrive? Do you like a challenge?

If yes, then this role gives you an exciting opportunity to join the Workforce and OD team here at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS . This newly created post, reporting to the OD Consultant, will work with stakeholders internally and externally to identify and implement changes to make a real difference to the lived experiences of our workforce and help achieve our strategic objectives.

The role is based in our central London hospital and the successful applicant will join a diverse, professional and welcoming HR team. You will enjoy hybrid working and will need to be flexible about working onsite based on the needs of the role.

Moorfields values diversity and inclusion and is committed to the recruitment and retention of under-represented groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

Why, in God’s name, does an eye hospital need an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Manager?

I’d take the shroud-waving of NHS panjandrums like Matthew Taylor more seriously if the NHS wasn’t wasting so much taxpayers’ money on diversitycrats.