Over £1 Million Spent on Woke LGBT and Racial Staff Networks by UK Health Service
Britain’s socialised healthcare system has spent over £1 million on woke LGBTQ+ and racial staff networks, despite persistent claims of underfunding and long waiting lists for patients.
Research from the Taxpayers’ Alliance (TPA) has found that some 493 staff networks are being funded by branches of the National Health Service (NHS) throughout the country. The most prevalent networks are for LGBTQ+ issues, with 101 such groups being funded by the taxpayer, followed by racial networks, of which there are at least 99.
The networks have been found to have put on “tea and rainbow cake” picnics for staff and sessions to discuss personal pronouns. In total, the time spent operating such networks — not including attending events — took up 108,807 staff hours over the past three years and cost the taxpayer £1,081,878, the Daily Mail reported.
In reality, the cost is likely to be much higher, given that only 111 of 230 NHS trusts responded to the Freedom of Information requests.
Explaining the purpose of such schemes, the North Middlesex University Hospital Trust said that “the principal purpose of such staff networks is to inform and support the trust’s aims, values and objectives especially in the promotion of equality, diversity and inclusion in the management of staff and delivery of services’. Specific aims include ‘organising celebration and awareness-raising days and events’.”
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The lead project researcher for the Taxpayers’ Alliance, Elliot Keck said: “Many of the networks are a questionable use of NHS time and taxpayers’ money. While Brits wait patiently for their appointments and operations, NHS middle managers are busy organising right-on lectures and social events. Health chiefs need to scale back some of these unnecessary ‘woke’ networks.”
Conservative MPs also criticised the woke schemes as a waste of money, with David Jones MP saying: “When patients are being denied operations and waiting too long for care, expending taxpayers’ money on networks like this seems wasteful at best and sinful at worst.”
“The funding and staff time going into these groups is symptomatic of
the waste within the NHS. The Health Secretary should use it as an
example of how existing funds could be spent more efficiently next time
bosses ask for more,” Tory MP Sir Christopher Chope added.
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