Comments by "" (@charliemoore2551) on "Subcontracting is the curse of the modern economy" video.

I remember working in Big 6 accountants when our excellent IT department was closed down and the whole operation taken over by Cap Gemini. They, in turn, contracted out the various bits of it to other companies and individuals. So you end up depending on people who know nothing about your business and aren't answerable to anyone in it. It's ideological engineering. The ideological fulcrum of Neoliberalism is that wealth is created by transactions and transactions are guided by the efficiency of market forces. Therefore, the more transactions you have, the more efficient and wealth generating you become! It's madness. But it's where we are.
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Especially when, as is very common in the NHS, the agency staff are exactly the same people that once worked for you. All you've done is insert an extra layer of costs.
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@gwynroberson198 You really need to ask that? It's because they'll get paid more by the agency than by the NHS. To spell it out: The NHS pays more NOT to give staff a decent pay rise.
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@Volkan-z2v Your argument appears to assume that the people who are at the head of the "company" (as you call it) know what the people in the organisation do and how they use the technology. I've never worked in a large organisation where that was the case - and I've worked in several.
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 @gwynroberson198 utter nonsense. I doubt if many private sector managers could be as effective with such a starvation of resources. The expensive bit is the outsourcing.
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@Volkan-z2v I don't understand your question.
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@gwynroberson198 It has more money than it ever has because it's being funnelled to private providers. So, starved of resources? Yes. Massively. I've come across that statistical ONS trick before. Of course there's a high rate of pay "across the income range"! That applies to the whole public sector because of the high level of qualified staff that are employed by public bodies: In this case, nurses, doctors, radiographers, pharmacists and a whole host of other highly qualified professionals. The mathematical trick was exacerbated under Thatcher and Blair when hospitals were forced to out-source many of the lower paying jobs - incidentally, resulting in dirty hospitals and unpalatable food. My relationship with the NHS has been close for my whole life. I was hospitalised for months as a child. My father suffered all his life as a result of wounds sustained in the war. My mother had cancer. My own children benefited from excellent care as they grew up, care which is now there for my grandchildren and I am seeing both my in-laws get excellent professional care as they suffer the problems that come with old age. The problem with your attempts to denigrate this incredible institution and the utterly superhuman efforts of those who work in it is that we all see with our own eyes and our own experience that you are telling lies which are as transparent as they are venal. You must think we are all idiots. We are not.
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