I suspect that 'end of year' money and its perverse and wasteful effects is still widespread in the public sector.
Alison
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From: John Whittington [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 15 June 2016 11:38
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Subject: Re: Costing shifts
At 00:50 15/06/2016 +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
>John's comments about "pigeon-holed" funds is interesting.
One imagine that the changes in management and funding structures have altered all this, but the inflexibility of 'pigeon holes' was very silly 'back then'. Even though hospitals were (as always) complaining about the lack of funds for clinically-relevant purposes (nurses, doctors, equipment etc.), there was often a flurry of unnecessary work undertaken in the month or two before April (e.g. unnecessary resurfacing of car parks, unnecessary decoration etc.) - because there was money in the pigeon holes for such work that would be 'lost' (or, at best, might result in a reduction of the following year's budget if not completely spent) if it wasn't spent before April. It appeared that no-one had the ability/authority to shift such 'spare' funds into genuinely needy purposes.
Kind Regards,
John
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