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Originally Posted by Hugh
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The trouble is, when people see the NHS, they think it should be employing Doctors and Nurses and no one else..
They don't realise the following:
- Patients need feeding (which requires Catering staff)
- Wards, Rooms, Theatres, Corridors and everywhere else in the Hospital needs cleaning (which requires cleaning staff, some of whom are specialised)
- Hospitals have a lot of equipment that needs power, which requires a reliable mains supply with tested backup (requiring Electricians to be on staff)
- Hospitals have a lot of other equipment and facilities to maintain (thus requiring a whole variety of different tradespeople, such as builders, plumbers, carpenters).
These people all need management..
I could go on, but I think I've made my point adequately. When you or I walk into a Hospital, we see (and deal with) the Doctors, Nurses and other Medical/Surgical staff. What we don't see is that the Hospital employs sometimes hundreds of other staff, most of whom are needed by the Hospital to provide treatment every bit as much a the medial and surgical staff. I do know that a lot of the functions I've outlined are performed by outside contractors, but they aren't all, and the NHS still indirectly pays for the staff, even if the staff are actually paid by a contractor.