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Front page letting us know how much all their staff are earning. Is that the more fines they dish out their wages go up. Also the hospitals are not being looked after properly, have read about Charring Cross Hospital now they reckon hospital won't be sorted till 2030. All the top bods earning too much money and letting the hospitals deteriorate, because they can. Should we be grateful for all the years most of us have paid NI. I say get them sorted and stop paying to the people who sit on their backsides doing nothing.

Barbara Stevens ● 976d2 Comments

Too many millionaires and would-be millionaires in parliament creating policies that suit them best.Rich people can afford to employ people to advise them how to pay as little tax as possible:  Poor people can't.We were promised 40 new hospitals by this Govt - we won't be getting them.  Charing Cross was promised money for a floor by floor refurbishment...  then there's Hammersmith and St Mary's in the same group not getting their promised refurbishment/rebuilding.https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/government-hospitals-2030-st-marys-paddington-charing-cross-hammersmith-steve-barclay-b1083783.htmlSuch a huge shortage of nurses and other medical staff.1 in 5 referrals to a food bank is from a family with a worker.  There are people not earning enough ie not being paid enough to support their family.https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/nov/10/nurses-among-rising-numbers-of-workers-using-food-banks-research-shows

Philippa Bond ● 972d

It's a very large organisation now - perhaps too large?There will be lots of positions that require such salaries for skilled workers or managers. I have no idea if on the whole it is well run or not. I can see waste and a lack of change in many areas. That to me seems to indicate that it has become too large.But yes the real issue is the difference in pay. The minimum wage has become the normal wage for many positions.Both political parties seem intent on keeping the current situation with the UK being a low pay economy. This really means the workers and taxpayers subsidising certain businesses. Work should pay and pay well.Of course it is not just pay that is important. With essentials such as rent/mortgages, food, utilities all going up it doesn't look particularly good for the next decade.

Ed Robinson ● 975d