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Newsletter from Roy Lilley

NhsManagers.net

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.

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