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Just for you…
The NHS is the world’s fifth largest employer.
The world's first universal healthcare system funded by taxation.
With over 1.4 million staff, the NHS is the largest employer in Europe and the fifth largest globally.
In the wider UK economy, as a whole, 9.5% of the workforce are managers.
In the NHS just 2% of the workforce are managers.
Of the total NHS workforce 52% are clinically trained
Of the remaining 48%, almost half are support staff such as cleaners, porters and canteen staff who keep the service running.
The average local general hospital will;
- Deliver over 9,000 babies
- Take half a million calls to the switchboard
- Produce 1.4 million meals
- Carry out 2,000 cataract operations
- Look after 1,500 people in 'virtual wards'
- Carry out 60,000 maintenance jobs
- Porters will walk 6 miles a day
- Housekeeping will produce 500,000 items of laundry, use 90,000 mop heads and clean 40,000 sqm of floor every day.
The NHS operates around six and a half thousand general practices…
Primary care sees a million people a day.
NHS emergency departments see over 25 million visits annually.
NHS surgeons perform around 4,000 organ transplants each year.
The NHS blood donation service collects over 2 million units of blood annually.
Women make up 70% of the total workforce and a majority 58% of managers, plus just under 50% of strategic roles, including board membership.
One third of managers are clinicians.
Of every 1,000 staff;
- 876 are British,
- 56 from EU countries,
- 41 Asian,
- 19 African,
- 8 from elsewhere.
There are over 200 different nationalities; 160 from Ukraine, 183 from Russia.
If the NHS were a country it would be around the thirtieth largest in the world.
The majority of chief executives are paid under £200,000.
Some chief executives of large FT’s can be paid around £250,000
The chief executive of NHS England, responsible for the NHS' annual budget of almost £160 billion and 1.2 million staff, is paid around £200,000.
The chief executive of Severn Trent water company was paid £2.8 million last year.
The NHS has one doctor for every 356 people, compared to one for every 277 people across the comparator countries.
The NHS has very low levels of hospital beds and the lowest levels of both CT and MRI scanners: it has fewer beds per person than 16 of the 18 other comparable countries.
NHS has the largest share of generic prescribing of all comparator countries, at +84%.
There are an estimated 600 million patient contacts in a year.
Approximately;
- 365 million appointments in GP practices.
- Around 73 million interactions with services like district nurses and health visitors.
- About 141 million patient interactions in hospitals.
- More than 34 million calls to ambulance and 111, combined.
Sees about 1141 patients every minute.
There’s plenty more… but I thought you’d be busy office partying, shopping, packing, wrapping. Traveling, visiting and all that good stuff… and be far too busy to bother with me.
So, may I say thank you for your company this year.
For ignoring my spelling misatkes, for trusting me with your secrets telling what's what and giving me what for.
Have a great Christmas and I hope your new year brings you everything you wish for and health and happiness and joy.
Remember…
... it’s OK to be proud of what you do.
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