As is grimly familiar with public health systems, some years ago the Tasmanian health system went through a round of “downsizing”. That is, sacking staff. The funny thing was, though, that while nurses and orderlies were first for the chop, the number of clipboard-tickers never seemed to diminish.
This is the greatest problem with bureaucracies: they are self-perpetuating. A “problem” is found — usually wrongly — and a bureaucracy is created to “deal” with it. The bureaucrats find — surprise, surprise! — that the solution is more bureaucrats. Eventually, like Douglas Adams’ “Shoe Event Horizon”, the point is reached where a society is saturated with bureaucracy to the point of collapse.
The Soviet Union is the classic example, but another socialist super-state is fast nipping at its heels.
Britain’s NHS is a bureaucratic monster with few peers. As if to prove the essential, destructive uselessness of bureaucracies, the NHS until just weeks ago was facing the real prospect of collapse: not from Covid cases, but from its own bureaucratic idiocy. The NHS was fully prepared to sack tens of thousands of staff who refused to buckle to its vaccine mandates.
Health secretary Sajid Javid announced yesterday evening (31 January) that the government plans to axe its plans for mandatory vaccinations, after fears were raised by organisations including the British Medical Association (BMA) and Unison that it would make an already severe staffing crisis unbearable […]
An impact assessment by the Department of Health and Social Care found in November that around 5% of the primary care workforce, around 75,000 workers, could have lost their jobs.
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The situation was so dire that Britain was already recruiting hundreds of doctors and nurses from overseas every week. Yet, at the same time, English nurses were skipping over the Scottish and Welsh borders in order to avoid vaccine mandates.
But here comes the M. Night Shyamalan/Alfred Hitchcock double-twist-and-flip…
An opportunity has arisen for multiple Caseworker posts within the Vaccine Damage Payment Team, part of our Primary Care Services Directorate.
The Vaccine Damage Scheme Team works on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care to process claims for a one-off payment to people who have suffered a severe disablement due to direct affects from a qualifying vaccination.
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That’s right: the bureaucracy which until last week was fully prepared to sack tens of thousands of nurses for not submitting to mandatory vaccinations, is now hiring extra bureaucrats to manage claims for vaccine damages.
You can’t make this stuff up.