Hospital interim manager costs £5,133 each week
Thursday 22nd July 2010, 2:58PM BST.
Hospital manager Andrew McLaughlin
THE interim hospital manager is being paid £920 a day.
Andrew McLaughlin costs the taxpayer £5,133 a week, including his agency fees, while his total take-home wage is £4,600 per week, from which he pays his own accommodation and travel costs.
His responsibilities include delivering efficiencies as part of the biggest ever States spending cuts programme, in which departments will have to shave ten per cent off their budgets by 2013.
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Lets Hope he makes one hell of a saving for being paid £4600 a week!!!!!!
I’d pay my own travel and accomodation cost’s if I was on that kind of money!
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The States couldn’t afford 40,000 pounds to extend the life of a cancer sufferer and yet pay 5,000 pounds plus each week on one person to save money.
I hope all those that voted against giving the money for the cancer drug sleep well at night.
Although from what I see every day in the news they have no conscience.
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i was wondering how much the prime minister of england , or france for that matter, earned each week?
£4600 take home , wow i could nearly buy a home at the end of the year.
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No one qualified enough to undertake this in an Island of finacial geniuses? Perhaps someone local with a genuine interest in (and genuine commitment to) the future of Jersey and it’s services would have offered better value. Another UK resident milking the cash cow. Do we get our money back if he fails to deliver?
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If he is saving lives at the hospital then he deserves a high salary. If he is just pushing a pen and delivering nothing then he should take a cut in salary.
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They take away patient facilities, talk about charging diabetics for needles etc they cannot live without because it is too costly. Now expect charities to pay for such equipment as dialysis machines etc because of the lack of funding. Then fritter it away on extra managers and people like Andrew McLaughlin, well I just hope he is worth every penny.
And there was me thinking Anne Pryke, with her extensive knowledge of nursing and the hospital would have been on the ball with the finances and the staff. All we have seen under her dictatorship is removal of patient care and nursing staff talking about sticking. She is full of hot air and a letdown to all concerned .
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Surely his take home pay is £4.6k pw before he pays 20% to the states?
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its ok we are getting used to this sort of wage now in the jep the rest of us will just dream of that sort of wage and what we could buy with it ps hope he is paying tax on that
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‘from which he pays his own accommodation and travel costs’
I am pleased to hear it. Don’t all the nurses and doctors do so as well?
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Well, what can I say,
I, as a born and bred true Jersey man I am now really having serious concerns, I moved to the mainland 10 years ago, having got as far in industry as I could and being very well known in the place of my birth, I have sat and advised on various State and private sector (private meetings) etc with regard to Jersey`s future( planning, pension short falls, education, refuse incineration etc. I have discussed as far back as 20 years ago the moving of the certre of St. Helier toward the reclamation site (before it was even completed and public knowledge) and even had privalage to view 1 tenth scale models of St. Helier even showing the now supposedly newley planned alterations to the abbatoir site 20 years ago!
The revalation to what the hospital manager is earning is very worrying, people of Jersey, you really need to take hold of what is happening, the golden cow has reached retirement age, look, learn & listen to what is happening in the world and do not listen to every media squirt being given as a shrowded form of advertising by financial institutions that `we are doing great and looking to the east’ , start re-building up the holiday, farming and micro industry, within the next 5 years, Jersey as an investment / tax centre will not be acceptable by the world and will be closed down albeit a slow and prolonged death it will happen. You as a small Island need to grasp the misfortunes of the current world tourism industry NOW and build a new modern tourisim to meet the future needs, You need an un-biased view that is giving a real perspective without a paypacket and self protectionism being the basis for the answers given for most of the States departments to retain employment on a salery that only the best in the world can command and lets not forget Jersey cannot afford to pay.
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Well, of course, If you want good people you have to pay big money – according to the experts who post on here.
So this must prove that they are correct.
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Standard consultant pay is £1000 per day. Nothing out of the ordinary here..
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gosh all these wages being released this week i,m in the wrong job!!!better get applying
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He must have thought all his Christmases had come at once when he was offered this job.
The states should get their priorities right and get rid of all the pen-pushers managers jobsworths etc at the hospital and employ more nurses and give them a decent wage to keep them here.
The comfort and well being of the patients should come first and foremost,just think how many more nurses they could employ with this kind of money they are throwing at him.
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This islands “love the rich policy” and let the poor to die is a bit tiresome.
They want to charge people for there own drugs for diabities,cut benefits left right and center and switch kidney machines off to save twenty grand a year.
What sort of “paradise island” is this???
More like hell on earth.
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Short term solution to a long term problem.
No dis-respect to Mr McLaughlin, after all he is just trying to earn a living like all of us, but this has been done before time after time and we have the T’shirt and still years down the line Jersey is still sinking. A very slow death.
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Bean #10
Your post echoes my thoughts for a long, long time. Unfortunately this government will not put in the kind of investment that the tourism, agriculture etc industries need. They simply pay lip service to them, occasionally throw inadequate token sums at it and then carry on bowing and scraping to the God of finance.
I intend to work here for a couple of years more and then sell my house while it is in equity (I am guessing that it won’t be worth much within 10 – 15 years), buy a nice place outright somewhere else and then desert this sinking ship.
The people of Jersey have voted and are getting the government – and the island – they deserve.
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bean (10) nice comment.
good luck with the job mr mc laughlin, hope fully, your ideas will be listened to and implimented, and the savings will out weigh your wage.
i dont mind a bit of humble pie.
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Like I’ve said before, is there a job like this for me, all enquiries welcome…. BTW how’s the chap in the cost-cutting job doing? Has his cost-cutting justified his paycheck?
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It’s been said previously, we probably have enough financial experts and accountants on this island to link arms and reach as far as Iceland and back, but no, we have to search out this special one who only knows how it’s done.
I it what you know or , WHO you know ??
I don’t know the person,……all I’m suggesting is an accountant, is an accountant, is an accountant and we have them here already !!!
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Has the island’s hierarchy lost their marbles? Anne Pryke what were you thinking of employing this adminstrator for this sort of money?
All this guy is, is someone who will delegate tasks to others and come up with loads of management speak to make everyone think he is doing a good job. Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” springs to mind.
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Bean is spot on.
I will reap as much as I can for the next 3-5 years then I’m off.
But boy am I looking forward to visiting again in 10 years time when you will be begging Finance companies to stay or come back. No doubt the comments on this board will be – do you remember the good times when we had revenues from the Finance companies & their workers…
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#13 ‘better get applying’
States jobs are already spoken for.
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What if this guy only worked 4 days a week at the Hospital? Crazy? Ask Anne!
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When it comes to saving money our new COE has got her finger on the pulse !
Every government in the world is cutting management and unnesscessary spending, but that’s not the jersey way. Cut Nurses, dinner room ladies, sewing room staff and increase managers, prehaps they could get rid of the patients as well, then management would have nothing to worry about. Well done Mrs Garbutt. Philip will be proud of you.
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#22 Unfortunately I suspect too many voters only think about the short term as well. Small island with only a limited number of people to bear any burdens, politics needs to be thinking much further ahead than the States seem to.
But I do loathe people who just go somewhere, take what they can and leave, they tend to apply this attitude in other areas of their life too.
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Oh the Irony!
Hiring someone at £4,600 a week to try to cut costs?
Umm hand in ur notice and job done?
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