Health Services: Agency Workers
(asked on 9th February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many full time equivalent (a) locum and (b) agency staff have been paid by NHS England in each of the last five years.
This question was answered on 21st February 2022
The table below sets out average full time equivalent (FTE) data on agency use for the medical and dental staff group and for all agency staff. The figures are for agency use in secondary care.
| 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 (YTD Month 1-9 only) |
Medical and dental agency use average FTE | 4,923 | 4,913 | 4,564 | 4,347 | 4,621 |
Total agency use average FTE | 26,632 | 26,674 | 26,137 | 26,012 | 31,350 |