The cost of NHS employees is growing and overtime is growing. The indication comes from the 2010 Annual Account of the General State Accounting Office and from the tables of the Ministry of Economy, anticipated on Tuesday by AdnKronos. According to analyses, in the last five years the expenditure of the Health Service for personnel has increased from 35.3 to 40.3 billion euros, an average leap forward of one billion for each calendar year. The same evolution for spending on overtime, which grew from 442 million euros in 2005 to 492 in 2010, fifty million a year. For the latter item of expenditure, in particular, the data from the Ministry of the Economy allow interregional comparisons over the three-year period 2007-2010: the three administrations that spend the most on overtime for doctors and nurses are Campania (100.1 million), Lazio (83.5) and Lombardy (52.2); Puglia is instead the one that records the highest trend increase, from 29 million in 2007 to 36 million in 2010. "The data on overtime" is the comment of Massimo Cozza, national secretary of Fp-Cgil doctors "measure the effects of the blockage of the turnover imparted by Maneuvers and Plan: doctors are forced to work more to fill the shifts that remain vacant. Unease and malaise arise which in the near future will be destined to grow because the picture will only get worse ».
November 24, 2011 – DoctorNews
