Echoing this, Benjamin Elks of the TaxPayers’ Alliance said: “Taxpayers will be furious at the health service blowing millions on woke non-jobs.

“While waiting lists spiral, poverty-pleading trusts should be directing all available resources to frontline care. It’s time for the health service to prioritise patients over political correctness.”

Figures attained by The Daily Express via Freedom of Information requests show that each NHS trust surveyed employs three Equality, Diversity and Inclusion personnel on annual salaries of £46,847.67.

In March 2023, the ex-Health Secretary Steve Barclay ordered the NHS to get rid of specific roles.

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However, in September of last year, the NHS announced that they would be spending millions of tax-payers’ money to create three new Departments: “Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, People and Culture, and People and Communities, with 244 posts across the three teams.

The recent information attained by FOIs has revealed that 296 NHS organisations have employed 822 staff with some diversity-related responsibilities across the health service.

Barclay was left “frustrated” after the new roles were announced in September, stating that these jobs should instead be covered by “normal management processes” as part of efforts to “ensure good value for money”.

The FOI request shows Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust has the highest number of roles, funding eight equality, diversity and inclusion staff on a combined £319,190.

The roles have been commissioned in order to promote fair treatment of people, particularly those under-represented due to their race, gender or disability.

In November, it was revealed that staff at some NHS hospitals were being forced to tick whether patients have a “penis or vagina” on a new medical form.