But was it just bankers a big chunk of country seemed to be living off of credit of thinking they were far richer than they actually were.Originally Posted by IanB
But one issue in the public sector in the small cross section i have seen is its sheer inefficency both from managment and indivudal workers.
Its not training as many seem to have far much more training than in the private sector its not resources as i mentioned above public sector when comparing equivalent size organsations will spend far more on equipment and have far more higher staffing levels.
Just cutting back money put in is not the answer. Look at the hospital where the manager brought in from industry wondered why surgeries were only used during the day. They changed things so they were used 24 hours a day and rearranged shifts so waiting lists were cut.
Why are doctors surgeries on the whole 9-5 monday to friday? We have public bulidings and faclities which are costing us a fortune to run which only used for less than 50 percent of the day.
Of course staff want unsocial hours supplments but if the faclities were used more efficently.
Some NHS managers I know socially, said a few years back they suggested ideas like sms and emails to remind people to confirm appoitments but were told dont bother due to data protection issues or some sort of rubbish!
They ran a trial in the few weeks they did it the amount of missed appointments droped dramtically either people remebering the right time (we all forget or lose the note we get) or actually replied saying i need to cancel/rearrange. The outlay was minimal compared to the returns, but had to stop as managment said great idea but we cant afford the risk we may get a complaint
Another thing is why does the NHS not play on it status?
For example my Company and many others allow staff to volunteer at schools and on projects. Wheter its helping to tidy up or create new faclities or using there knowhow.
Many of our staff act as teachers in after hours clubs and as mentors. We have helped act as unpaid consultants on networking and I.T. We have had our back offices lend schools near our various regional offices with accounting etc. Our company gains from this as does the community and the tax payer.
The big bug bear which stops most people helping is the relentless amount of checks for each place
While none of us mind being checked out, we have to be any way for our workplace. But we need a national security clerance system.
At present im crb checked by two indivudal education authorities, for work i had to have checks for three different police forces for when we go on visits and for MI5 in case i visit there plus further checks for other goverment departments and the royal palaces
If we had a central organsation which did this surely on behalf of all these goverment bodies it might save a lot of costs and make it easier to get more volunteers?
