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“…getting off relatively lightly… up to 70,000 job losses notwithstanding”, huh?
Let’s keep things in proportion!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jul/07/coalition-prescription-for-the-nhs
Jeff Skinner
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From: UK medical/ health care library community / information workers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ayre Stephen
Sent: 15 July 2010 11:34
Hi everyone,
To get some perspective, it is not just librarians who are receiving scrutiny. See:
And the NHS is getting off relatively lightly, with a small increase in funding (up to 70,000 job losses from PCTs and SHAs notwithstanding). Other departments like Education face cuts of 25%! In that context all custodians of public money need to critically evaluate all spending. We must remember that all public sector staff are paid from compulsory levies from other people (taxes). We must be seen to be providing value.
This has been a most stimulating discussion. Thanks to all the posters. It is an important issue and the time spent discussing it is well spent.
Kind regards,
Stephen
Stephen Ayre MA, MCLIP
Clinical Librarian
William Harvey Library
George Eliot Hospital
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[log in to unmask]Information, combined with the right support, is the key to better care, better outcomes and reduced costs. Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS. Department of Health, July 2010. 2.5 p.13.
From: UK medical/ health care library community / information workers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Fiona Morgan
Sent: 15 July 2010 10:34
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Subject: Re: Government Spending ChallengeUnfortunately it's not necessarily about the actuality. It's about the outsider's perception of what's happening.
It doesn't matter how much valuable work you're doing, or how good you are at mutli-tasking, if all the outsider sees is several people drinking tea and chatting.
Best wishes
Fiona Morgan
From:
Andrew Booth <[log in to unmask]>
To:
Date:
15/07/2010 09:21
Subject:
Re: Government Spending Challenge
I cannot argue that librarians have a multitask brain - at least the 90%
who are not chromosomally challenged as I unfortunately am (XY!).
However I am not sure I would WANT a surgeon to work with one hand on
the cup of tea and the other on the computer mouse while having a chat
with a colleague - unless he was studying in an otherwise deserted
library that is! Or perhaps he could graft on a third arm for his bit
part performance in the theatres?
[And that apparently is my 0.1% worth of your working day for today
(assuming of course that you simply read my message, don't think or stew
on it (very likely!) or reply to it and that I don't use poor
statistical analysis to multiply it up by the number of list members.
And oh dear, by making this last point I have exceeded the 0.2% of my
working day allocated to composing my reply :-) ]
Best wishes
Andrew
Angélique Mattioli wrote:
> The truth is that unlike surgeons we librarians are able to work with one hand on the cup of tea and the other on the computer mouse
> while we are having a chat with a colleague. We have a multitask brain ;-)
>
> Angélique Mattioli,
> Bibliothécaire-Documentaliste.
>
> IRSPG asbl,
> Bibliothèque,
> avenue Georges Lemaître, 25,
> 6041 Gosselies
> Belgique
>
>
>
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