Health chief: ‘To deliver cuts we will need more managers’

New Health chief Julie Garbutt

THE Health department needs managers to help it find the huge cuts being demanded by the Treasury Minister, the service’s new chief executive has said.
Speaking at a Scrutiny hearing yesterday, Julie Garbutt said that the department did not have the skilled managers needed to enable it to find the cuts which would transform the department.
Earlier this year, all States departments were asked to trim their budgets by two per cent to fill budget deficits caused by the recession.
The £3.7 million cuts proposed by the department include closing the hydrotherapy pool, reducing administration costs and cutting down on maintenance and engineering costs.(from JEP)

Sounds logical to me... more chiefs less indians.. typical States policy...

What an absurd strategy. All they need is one good financial adviser from the medical fraternity (maybe from BUPA or somewhere similar), on a short-term fixed contract, to pinpoint areas where cuts could be made with the least detriment to services.

You just don't listen Deebay both Islands have a policy of not listening to common sense!

The last thing the tax payer needs is yet more bums on seats shuffling paper in the civil service. There are too many non jobs within the civil service. Too many people playing games on the office pc or surfing the web for their shopping/holidays. Just like the councils in the UK the states needs to start thinning down the work force.

Is she John Prescott in disguise ?