Southampton hospital bosses have been fined more than £2,000 for breaching single-sex ward rules.
Of course, we know it’s not true. The money comes out of the hospital budget, not directly out of their pay packets. Which, given it’s not their
first offence, is what should happen:
This is triple the number of breaches the hospital was fined for in April.
No matter who wins, the taxpayer loses. When are we going to learn that, to have an effect, the fines should be
docked from the chief exec's wages?
Excellent solution. In the public sector it should always be the chief exec that's punished not the organization.
ReplyDeleteExactly. The "offending" party faces no penalty so no 'lessons will be learned', and there is every incentive to prosecute every single breach of every petty regulation, in order to extort yet more from the remaining taxpayers. And so there is indeed a disincentive for the ruling class to change the system.
ReplyDelete" In the public sector it should always be the chief exec that's punished not the organization."
ReplyDeleteOh, where staff have identifiably screwed up I'd be happy taking it out of their wages too, at least a percentage of it.
" And so there is indeed a disincentive for the ruling class to change the system."
Spot on.