Pssst! Wanna new NHS car for Crimbo?

hinch wrote:Well would ya ******* believe it?

As reported on the old RO forums, Pennine have employed a new firm of 'consultants', Optimise, to address the issues which put Pennine Acute in the bottom 20% of NHS Trusts in the country in terms of low staff morale.

The answer? Well, the 'Listening Into Action' team have decided that the cure to those winter NHS blues is to organise a raffle for a new Toyota Aygo. Staff are invited to fork out £2 each for a raffle ticket. They seem to even have managed to get an RCN trade union rep involved. (Cries of 'Shame'!)

Let's hope it goes to one of the 180 staff being made redundant so that they can have a comfortable drive to the nearest Job Centre.

The car looks like a cross between a Fiat 125 and a Rowntrees jelly.

I see it has the registration number' MY 1 PAT'. Perhaps PAT P45 might have been more appropriate or perhaps'PAT UB40'?

So were do I get my raffle ticket from begger the staff this isn't for them

Hinch: What's with this identity crisis then ? We'll be having Billy Liars and Daleks at this rate. To assume a Councillor's mantle will confuse many hovering visitors, who will likely credit it as a local 'bona fide' representative of a council ! .

Mojo Hill wrote:Hinch: What's with this identity crisis then ? We'll be having Billy Liars and Daleks at this rate. To assume a Councillor's mantle will confuse many hovering visitors, who will likely credit it as a local 'bona fide' representative of a council ! .

Identity crisis like Wilf!

Councillor Duxbury wrote:... Pennine have a green transport policy ...

Oh yes, and a corporate objective to reduce their CO2 emissions.

However, they are really only interested in reducing their own utility bills and transport costs, and nominal organizational energy efficiency rating. What they don't include in their calculations is the massive increases in CO2 emissions due to staff travelling further in ever more congested traffic, and patients travelling further, by less environmentally-friendly transport for time and distance reasons. For example, if you merge a couple of departments on to one site, then the organization utility bills costs will come down slightly, but say 50 staff have to travel 5 miles further to work, and then back again, 220 times a year, a few start driving to work that did not need to before, and 1 or 2 even get a second car, and say 2000 patients a year have to travel further, those effects do not show on the figures - so that's a green success to Pennine! But sadly not if you are an environmentalist, a local resident, an affected member of staff or a patient forced to travel further at their own expense.

It will be interesting to how this (external consultancy-purchased) 'Listening into Action' morale booster works out. It would be embarrassing if one of the directors wins it (the HR director has time to be one of those advertised to be selling tickets), or one of the many agency/contract staff brought in to fill the gaps left by lost staff. Predictably, the response to the poor national staff survey results was so slow that this year's survey has already been submitted, before any of the 'Listening' has been turned 'into Action'.